Clinton urges South Africa to preserve the legacy of Nelson Mandela

Said U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that the South Africa to maintain the heritage of the symbol of freedom Nelson Mandela through the promotion of human rights and democracy among its neighbors and around the world. And urged the students of the University of Western Cape to look beyond their borders and export the ideals of their country, which was adopted by Mandela. Clinton visited Mandela (94 years) at his home on Monday.

"You, the young generation, are required to preserve the legacy of freedom that you left Mandela and the brave men and women others," according to Clinton said. She added, "You are required to build on this legacy to make sure that your country and fulfill its promise to take its place among the leading nations, and become a force for peace, equality and opportunity and democracy and always standing by to human rights at home and around the world."

Clinton presided over the morning and on Wednesday the signing of an agreement with health officials in South Africa, and would put Americans at the top management of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief in the country.

And spent in this program $ 3.2 billion on anti-retroviral drugs and other treatments and AIDS prevention programs in South Africa since it started former U.S. President George W. Bush in 2004. And is South Africa with the highest rate in the world in HIV infections, where there are 5.7 million people, 17.8 percent of the population, is infected with the disease.

America amended its proposals in a bid to revive peace talks with Taliban

Eased the administration of President Barack Obama's proposal whereby the movement of Taliban detainees in the Guantanamo military prison for the release of U.S. soldiers captured by the Afghan Taliban allies in Pakistan, and that in an effort to revive peace talks in Afghanistan.

Informed sources said that the amended proposal represents a waiver of the U.S. offer the previous change chronology for the transfer of five senior figures in the Taliban have been held for years at Guantanamo Bay to Qatar.

The U.S. officials hope the agreement leads the exchange of prisoners, which put forward as a gesture of goodwill during the initial discussions between the U.S. negotiators and officials of the Taliban to open the way for peace talks between the militants and the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

The sources said that the amended proposal provides for sending each of the five Taliban prisoners to Qatar first and then release the Taliban prisoners Sergeant Bo Bergdal the only American in the war.

The U.S. officials suggested by the division of Taliban prisoners into two groups and that the prisoner is released before the U.S. release of the second group of Taliban prisoners in and out of Guantanamo.

Bergdal and who is now 26-year-old disappeared from his base in southern Afghanistan in June 2009 and believed to be Taliban militants holding him in the north-west Pakistan.

The White House U.S. soldier and the family of the U.S. to comment on the agreement rate.

The sources said that the exchange of prisoners amended plan were discussed with officials in Qatar during a visit in mid-June, Marc Grossman, U.S. special representative of President in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Qatar, which has played host to a number of Taliban officials play a pivotal role in nearly two years of secret exploratory talks between U.S. officials and representatives of the Taliban movement, which still considers the opponent in Afghanistan.

The Obama administration hopes that this process leads to concrete talks on the future of Afghanistan as the Taliban leadership is planning to open an office in Qatar has a political official. But the Taliban announced in March its withdrawal from the talks, saying the negotiating position of the United States is consistent. Now U.S. officials are cautiously trying to pave the way for the resumption of the talks. Reuters was the first to publish a report in December about the proposed prisoner exchange agreement.

And U.S. officials confirm that any process for the exchange of prisoners will be under U.S. law, which requires notification of Congress before the first transfer of any prisoners from Guantanamo.

United Nations Mission in Kabul: the continuing conflict in Afghanistan damage to civilians

Confirmed the United Nations Mission in Kabul, that the continued conflict in Afghanistan is still damage devastating to civilians, pointing out that the violence associated with the conflict in Afghanistan, caused during the first half of this year in the fall of 3099 of the civilian victims were killed or injured (1145 people dead and 1954 injured ).

According to a report issued by the Mission during the period from the first of January and June 30, 2012, that among the number of civilian casualties during the period of measurement 925 of women and children, or about 30% of the total number of victims.

For his part, said Nicholas Haysom Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Afghanistan, said the children, women and men in Afghanistan are still being killed and at alarming levels, urging all parties in Afghanistan to increase its efforts to protect civilians and respect for the sanctity of human life.

The report pointed out that the anti-government elements were responsible for killing nearly 80 \% of civilian casualties in Afghanistan (882 dead and 1593 injured), while the civilian casualties because of the pro-government forces accounted for 10 \% of the total victims, killing 165 civilians and wounded 131 others, reflecting a decrease of 25 \% over the same period last year.

Mission and documented human rights violations against civilians in the Afghan seven provinces, as well as the observed failure in the ability to conduct investigations and prosecution of some members of the local Afghan police and suspected of having committed violations in the past and present.

The report warned of increased attacks on schools in Afghanistan, pointing out that the interventions of the Taliban may have affected the ability of children in access to schools, particularly girls.

The report 34 attacks on schools in the first six months of this year and including the burning of some of the closure and occupation of others.