UN report: Afghans plagued by poverty, corruption

GENEVA -- Afghanistan remains mired in poverty, corruption and violence, despite an estimated $35 billion in aid being poured into the country between 2002 to 2009, the United Nations said Tuesday.

"Widespread corruption further limits access to services for a large proportion of the population," the report found, accusing Afghan officials of advancing their own interests at the expense of the general population. Women, ethnic minorities and people with disabilities suffer the worst discrimination, it said.

The 26-page report also criticized the international community for placing too much emphasis on security and too little on long-term development. More than eight years after a U.S.-led military coalition ousted the Taliban, Afghanistan has the world's second highest maternal mortality rate and the third worst rate of child mortality, according to the report.

A spokesman for the U.N. human rights office said the world was failing to address these problems despite pledging a new beginning for the country at a 2001 conference in Bonn, Germany.
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UN report: Afghans plagued by poverty, corruption
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