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KABUL - Last week saw the completion of a legal training on investigating and documenting abuses of detainee rights. The event was held in Kunduz and was a collaboration between UNAMA, EUPOL, and the Afghanistan Independent…

20 February 2012 - The adoption of the National Gender Equity and Equality Policy by Guinea-Bissau is a challenge and the starting-point to make gender equality and equal opportunities for men and women a reality in the…

BAMYAN - This week 285 Mullahs from throughout Bamyan province completed a UN-supported workshop on gender equality. The week-long programme was a joint endeavor by the Gender Empowerment Programme of the United Nations…

KABUL - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has partnered with religious institutions to provide solar panels that will power much-needed electricity to schools as well as promote the use of renewable…

KABUL - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called for concerted efforts to help Afghanistan extricate itself from the scourge of drug production, use and trafficking, noting that the country’s stability remains at stake with…

NEW YORK - Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, The drug trade degrades individuals and destabilizes nations. It is a threat to the well-being and development of Afghanistan and its neighbours. Afghanistan suffers from one of…

KABUL - The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is boosting its technical support to help rebuild Afghanistan’s dilapidated traditional irrigation systems, which have been neglected for decades owing to war…

KABUL - The United Nations envoy for children and armed conflict today called for universal ratification of a treaty protocol that outlaws the use of minors to fight wars and encourages States to set 18 years as the minimum…

10 February 2012 - The United Nations Peacebulding Fund (PBF) today officially granted $2,8m to Guinea-Bissau Government in support to the Defense and Security Sector Reform and Socio-economic, Reintegration especially the…

KABUL - A majority of workers in Afghanistan’s brick kilns are child bonded labourers under the age of 14, according to a new survey commissioned by the International Labour Organization (ILO). The ILO Representative for…