You need not travel to Afghanistan
to find out how beautiful it is...
Institutions
- Afghan government and ministries:
Islamic Transitional state of Afghanistan (official website)
Ministry of foreign affairs
Ministry of Communication
Ministry of Agriculture
Ministry of Finance
Ministry of Commerce
Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation & Development
- Asian Development Bank
- Embassy of Afghanistan, Washington D.C.
- US Embassy in Kabul
United Nations Agencies
- FAO Afghanistan
Food and Agriculture Organisation of UN — representation in Afghanistan - UNICEF in Afghanistan
UN Children's fund and its activities in Afghanistan - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR)
Human Rights in Afghanistan - United nations development programme
News from development projects of UN - UN news centre
- UNIFEM, UN Development Fund for Women, South Asia Regional Office
- UN Office on Drugs and Crime
- UNESCO Afghanistan
UN Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation - IRINnews
Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN), part of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
International agencies and organisations
- Amnesty International
Afghanistan Country Page - International Human Rights Law Group
Afghanistan Country Page - International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
The ICRC in Afghanistan - The Afghan Women’s Network
Network of women and women’s NGOs working to empower Afghan women - International Assistence security force in Afghanistan
- Norwegian refugee council
Private foundation helping displaced people - Women for afghan women
American organisation helping to ensure the human rights of afghan women - WHO Afghanistan
World Health Organisation in Afghanistan
Media
- Reuters Country Profile — Afghanistan
Reuters news from Afghanistan - Radio Free Afghanistan
Audio, news, links... - Afghan magazine
Art, poetry, photos.. - Afghan daily
News, analyses... - National Geographic — Afghanistan
Coverages, photos... - Infoservis
People in Need project improving the general knowledge about situation in areas in crisis, observance of human rights...
General info
- Afghanistan Information Management Service
Project building information management capacity in government and delivering information management services to organisations across Afghanistan (including great maps). - ReliefWeb Afghanistan
One of the basic pages about humanitarian aid in Afghanistan - Countrystudies
This website contains the on-line versions of books previously published in hard copy by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress as part of the Country Studies/Area Handbook Series sponsored by the US Department of the Army since 1986. - CIA Factbook
CIA general, geographical, economical, military information - Eurasianet
News and analyses from Central and South-West Asia, Russia, Caucasus... - Afghan political resources
Links on websites of parties, governments... - Development Gateway
Foundation enabling development, exploiting powerful and affordable information and ICT - Maps of Afghanistan
Photos
- Pictures from Afghanistan
Photos by a free reporter - Images of Afghanistan
Photos from a journey from 70s - Afghanistan Picture Gallery
Traveller's photoalbum — people and landscape - Historical photoalbum of Afghanistan
Images 1747 — 1992, political leaders, war events - Voyages, voyages
Slide show Kabul, Bamyian
Travelogues
- Afghanistan adventure
About a journey from march 2001 - Journey Through Afghanistan
Travel journal and pictures from 1973 and 1977—78 - Afghan Travelogue
Report of a trip in 1975. Includes photos and links.
