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Letters, Op-Eds, and Presentations, Afghanistan

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CESR Op Ed: Stifled in the Loya Jirga, by Omar Zakhilwal (The Washington Post)

Kabul, Afghanistan - I am a member of the loya jirga's silent majority -- or rather, silenced majority -- who came here to Afghanistan's capital expecting to shape our nation's future but instead find ourselves being dragged back into the past.

Afghanistan | CESR in the News | Food | Letters, Op-Eds, and Presentations

CESR Letter to the Editor (The New York Times)

To the Editor:

Congratulations on your comprehensive and moving account of the food crisis in Afghanistan ("Now the Battle to Feed the Afghan Nation"). But the article overlooks the dangers of militarizing the humanitarian effort.

Afghanistan | Food | Letters, Op-Eds, and Presentations | United Nations and Other Legal Submissions

Violations of the Right to Food by all Parties to the Conflict in Afghanistan

Letter to the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights