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Article: Assessing Afghanistan's correctional needs. (International).
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- Corrections Compendium
- Article date:
- July 1, 2002
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During the past several months, two major events have provided an outline for the way in which the United Nations, and most likely, the international community, will respond to help rebuild Afghanistan's correctional system. First was Security Council Resolution 1378, which was passed on Nov. 14, 2001; and second was the Agreement on Provisional Arrangements in Afghanistan Pending the Re-Establishment of Permanent Government Institutions, which became known as the Bonn Agreement, finalized on Dec. 5, 2001. As summarized in the Bonn Agreement, the action to be taken is: "The Afghan interim administration shall establish, with the assistance of the United Nations, a judicial ...