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KANDAHAR - The “If I can do it, you can do it too” campaign run by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) launched role model speak series in the Southern Region where hundreds of schools girls and women…

KABUL - A long-serving member of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) team in Afghanistan, Mr Abdul Wali Modadiq, has been appointed the Deputy Director-General of Afghanistan's National Environmental Protection…

2 November 2011 - Environmental deterioration threatens to reverse recent progress in human development for the world’s poorest, warns a United Nations report released today, calling for urgent action to slow climate change…

2 November 2011 - The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) today launched its Human Development Report 2011 entitled Sustainability and Equality: A Better Future for All. Click here to read more about the report. The…

KABUL - A long-serving member of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) team in Afghanistan, Mr Abdul Wali Modadiq, has been appointed the Deputy Director-General of Afghanistan's National Environmental Protection…

KABUL - The United Nations projects that the world population will reach 7 billion today. This global milestone is both a great opportunity and a great challenge. The challenges confronting humanity as the world’s population…

KABUL - The United Nations projects that the world population will reach 7 billion today. This global milestone is both a great opportunity and a great challenge. Dari - Pashto The challenges confronting humanity as the world…

KABUL - H.E. the Minister of Counter Narcotics of Afghanistan, Zarar Ahmad Moqbel Osmani and the Country Office Representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Afghanistan, Mr. Jean-Luc Lemahieu, visited…

NEW YORK - Before we begin, let me say just a few words about the terrorist attack near the UN offices in Kandahar early this morning. As you may know, a car bomb was exploded at the gate of a local NGO that shares a common…

28 October 2011 - The Security Council today welcomed efforts by countries to implement a landmark resolution calling for strengthening women’s participation in peacebuilding, peacekeeping, conflict prevention and mediation…

28 October 2011 - The number of Afghan refugees returning home has dropped substantially this year, with some 60,000 repatriating in the first 10 months compared to more than 100,000 over the same period in 2010, the United…

KUNDUZ - The first private radio station established by women in the northeastern region today started broadcasting a six-part United Nations radio series, Toward the Better Future. The head of the Kunduz Culture and…