Afghans call on David Cameron and Ashraf Ghani to reform Afghanistan’s trillion-dollar natural resource sector
[Facilitator's noter: Thank you to Mohammad Aziz Akramzada, Project Management Assistant, Integrity Watch Afghanistan, for sharing this information.]
More than 40 Afghan and international organizations warned David Cameron and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani that Afghanistan’s trillion dollar natural resource sector could fund conflict and humanitarian crises if not governed properly, days before the duo host the first major international conference on Afghanistan since its new government was elected.
In letters to Cameron and Ghani, the organisations expressed their “great concern” at the “threat posed to the country’s future development and stability by poor governance of natural resources” and asked them to put the sector on the top of the agenda at the London Conference on Afghanistan on Thursday. Large-scale illegal mining in Afghanistan continues to fund armed groups, including the Taliban and informal militias implicated in human rights abuses.
Read the full story in Integrity Watch Afghanistan's website: http://iwaweb.org/_news/news0019_afghans_call_on_natural_resource.html
More than 40 Afghan and international organizations warned David Cameron and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani that Afghanistan’s trillion dollar natural resource sector could fund conflict and humanitarian crises if not governed properly, days before the duo host the first major international conference on Afghanistan since its new government was elected.
In letters to Cameron and Ghani, the organisations expressed their “great concern” at the “threat posed to the country’s future development and stability by poor governance of natural resources” and asked them to put the sector on the top of the agenda at the London Conference on Afghanistan on Thursday. Large-scale illegal mining in Afghanistan continues to fund armed groups, including the Taliban and informal militias implicated in human rights abuses.
Read the full story in Integrity Watch Afghanistan's website: http://iwaweb.org/_news/news0019_afghans_call_on_natural_resource.html