http://children.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2008/05/08/drug-trade-fuels-forced-marrigaes-in-afghanistan/ The largest network of Foreign Policy blogs Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:08:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.0 http://children.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2008/05/08/drug-trade-fuels-forced-marrigaes-in-afghanistan/#comment-1912 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:39:59 +0000 http://children.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2008/05/08/drug-trade-fuels-forced-marrigaes-in-afghanistan/#comment-1912 [...] In the post Drug Trade Fuels Forced Marriages in Afghanistan, the looming drug culture was brought to attention, as the country drug market has only continued to fuel human rights violations and breed more suffering among the populous, especially children. A recent New York Times article written by Thomas Schweich, a former U.S. counternarcotics official, brought light to the issues as to why Afghanistan losing the battle against drugs. The main issue is that efforts to address Afghanistan’s massive poppy cultivation have been hampered by a seer lack of political will, as large scale corruption remains at every level of the Afghanistan’s political framework. Additionaly an absence of alternative solutions remain for local farmers, leaving them almost forced to continue poppy production. A multi-pronged strategy including pressure on Afghan President Hamid Karzai to cease protection of drug lords, more drug treatment centers and developmental rewards to provinces that become poppy free is needed. [...] […] In the post Drug Trade Fuels Forced Marriages in Afghanistan, the looming drug culture was brought to attention, as the country drug market has only continued to fuel human rights violations and breed more suffering among the populous, especially children. A recent New York Times article written by Thomas Schweich, a former U.S. counternarcotics official, brought light to the issues as to why Afghanistan losing the battle against drugs. The main issue is that efforts to address Afghanistan’s massive poppy cultivation have been hampered by a seer lack of political will, as large scale corruption remains at every level of the Afghanistan’s political framework. Additionaly an absence of alternative solutions remain for local farmers, leaving them almost forced to continue poppy production. A multi-pronged strategy including pressure on Afghan President Hamid Karzai to cease protection of drug lords, more drug treatment centers and developmental rewards to provinces that become poppy free is needed. […]

]]> http://children.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2008/05/08/drug-trade-fuels-forced-marrigaes-in-afghanistan/#comment-1622 Sun, 08 Jun 2008 23:44:06 +0000 http://children.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2008/05/08/drug-trade-fuels-forced-marrigaes-in-afghanistan/#comment-1622 Afghan farmers urged to grow flowers instead of poppies National Public Radio (text and audio) http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91118514 (6/5) Afghan farmers urged to grow flowers instead of poppies
National Public Radio (text and audio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91118514
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