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KABUL - The United Nations drug control agency has signed agreements with the Government of Iran to provide HIV prevention and care services to women and Afghan refugees there who are dependent on drugs. HIV programmes for…

KABUL - International priorities in Afghanistan - including security, long-term institution-building and stability throughout the coming elections - remain valid, but what is lacking is adequate resources and political will…

KABUL - President Hamid Karzai has kicked off a United Nations-backed polio vaccination drive targeting some 7.7 million children in Afghanistan, one of four countries, along with India, Nigeria and Pakistan, where the…

BALKH - For the first time ever a group of law students from Balkh University in Mazar-i-Sharif will compete in the internationally prestigious Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. “Jessup has linked law…

15 January 2009 - Women in the world’s least developed countries are 300 times more likely to die in childbirth or from pregnancy-related complications than women in developed countries, according to UNICEF’s latest State of…

1 February 2009 - 2009 looks set to witness a further decrease in opium cultivation in Afghanistan, according to a joint report of the Ministry of Counter Narcotics and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. English -…

NEW YORK - The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights says the escalation of the conflict in Afghanistan has had a “significant impact on civilians.” Press Release: English - Dari - Pashto Ms. Navi Pillay presents…

KABUL - I welcome today’s statement by the Independent Election Commission reaffirming 20 August as the date of Afghanistan’s 2009 presidential and provincial council elections. This date will provide the time needed for the…

KABUL - The situation for women in Afghanistan is very mixed. There’s a lot to point to institutionally in terms of what has been accomplished in the last five years. The National Action Plan for Women and the Afghanistan…

KABUL - More than 82,000 anti-personnel mines were cleared in Afghanistan in 2008, but the funding needed to meet the 2013 demining completion goal – around $500 million – is threatened by the world economic situation, a…