KABUL, 15 October 2009 (IRIN) – In a memorandum to Afghanistan’s next president, 16 Afghan and international NGOs and civil society organizations have called for urgent improvements in the health, education and human rights sectors.
While calling the country’s presidential elections “flawed”, the NGOs said in a press release on 15 October: “Afghanistan’s next government must urgently devote greater resources to building up to 6,000 new schools, training upwards of 5,000 new midwives and professionalizing the police force to improve the lives of ordinary Afghans.”
“The situation is critical and demands urgent action from the Afghan government and other key stakeholders,” it said.
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