Afghanistan,India,Pakistan,Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Ethiopia also had increases.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

In particular, Coomaraswamy highlights the plight of child soldiers in ferocious conflicts in Gaza,Sri Lanka,Pakistan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq and Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

"We need to scale up our efforts delivered in Haiti, but we also need to ensure that children all over the world in the Horn of Africa, in Afghanistan,in Pakistan, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in Sudan,in Chad all these children actually deserve and have the right to the same assistance as children everywhere else,".

VOA: standard.2010.02.04

President Daoud was killed and new President Nur Mohammed Taraki proclaimed the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.

CNN: Sunday,

Alongside the training mission in Mali and significant EU contributions to United Nations missions, Brussels deploys a training and antipiracy mission in and around Somalia, a monitoring mission in Georgia and police operations in Kosovo, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Afghanistan.

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Press for stronger engagement by the Council and other U.N. human rights mechanisms in Haiti, Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo and partnered with Afghanistan to build international support for a resolution on preventing attacks on Afghan school children, especially girls.

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