KUNDUZ - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) this week distributed copies of the Afghan Constitution and dozens of books on Afghan law to judicial officials of the Imam Saheb district in the north-eastern Afghan province of Kunduz.

The books are designed to be used for carrying out day-to-day judicial and other legal work, especially in the remote districts of the country where access to legal documents is limited. The books handed out by UNAMA officials cover police work, civil law, criminal procedure, and professional information for courts and other criminal justice mechanisms.

UNAMA’s Rule of Law personnel began distributing these books, published by the European Union Police Mission in Afghanistan (EUPOL), to Afghan officials after EUPOL scaled back its activities in Afghanistan last year. The Kunduz office of UNAMA received more than 1,300 volumes of EUPOL-provided books. Half of them have already been distributed in a programme scheduled to be completed in May.