Tajikistan receives nearly half a million dollars for locust control
Dushanbe/Almaty/Dubai, 24 April 2008 - John Holmes, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, today allocated nearly half a million dollars from the donor-funded Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to provide urgent assistance to the Government of Tajikistan to monitor and control the current outbreak of locusts across 18 provinces... Read more (English) (Russian)

World Health Day - "Protecting health from climate change"
World Health Day marks the founding of WHO. It is the Organization's most visible effort to raise awareness of a key global health issue selected each year. The First World Health Assembly created the event in 1948 and it has been celebrated on 7 April annually since 1950. WHO organizes international, regional and local events on the Day and throughout the year to highlight the selected priority health area... Read more (English) (Russian)

United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Supports Shahritus Farmers in Making a New Start in Water Management
Shahritus District, Khatlon Region, Tajikistan. On April 11, 2008, the U.S. Ambassador to Tajikistan Tracey Ann Jacobson and the Shahritus district Hukumat Deputy Chairman Ms. Gulandom Azimova participated in the opening ceremony of the Water User Association (WUA) "Sayod" office in Shahritus, Khatlon Oblast... Read more

Message from Mr Koichiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of World Book and Copyright Day, 23 April 2008.
7 April 2008, Worldwide - Since 23 April 1996, World Book and Copyright Day has brought together millions of people in more than 100 countries in both the South and North in the solemn celebration of the many functions of the book in the life of human society. It has also invited them to reflect on the place of copyright in connection with books ... Read more

The World Bank Vice President for Europe and Central Asia visits Tajikistan (English) (Russian)