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KABUL - The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Afghanistan, Staffan de Mistura, visited Kandahar today to assess the situation on the ground and meet with local leaders and authorities and UN…

KABUL - The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Afghanistan, Staffan de Mistura, today concluded a two-day official visit to the Islamic Republic of Iran where he met with officials from the…

KABUL - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Staffan de Mistura today concluded a one and half day visit in the province of Herat, in the west of Afghanistan. The United Nations top envoy in Afghanistan saw…

KABUL - Tactics of the Taliban and other Anti-Government Elements (AGEs) are behind a 31 per cent increase in conflict-related Afghan civilian casualties in the first six months of 2010 compared with the same period in 2009…

KABUL - Harmful traditional practices that violate the human rights of women and girls are pervasive in Afghanistan, occurring in varying degrees in all communities throughout the country, the United Nations Assistance…

KABUL - UNAMA and the international community reconfirm their commitment to work with the Afghan Government and the Afghan people to promote principles of a democratic state including rule of law, good governance, political…

KABUL - Parties to the armed conflict in Afghanistan should escalate their efforts to protect Afghan civilians in 2011, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights…

KABUL - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and Mine Action Coordination Centre for Afghanistan (MACCA) condemn in strongest terms the brutal killing of four deminers from the Demining Agency for…

KANDAHAR - Hundreds of widows at the Kandahar Women Affairs Department (DoWA) recited the Holy Quran and prayed together for peace at an event jointly organized by the United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA)…

KABUL - On behalf of the United Nations in Afghanistan I extend my heartfelt greetings to all Afghans as they celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr. English - Pashto Throughout the holy month of Ramadan the people of Afghanistan have once…

KABUL - Afghanistan’s Ministry of Public Health (MoPH), with the support of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has launched intensified efforts to wipe out polio from the…

24 August 2011 - Baskul Nasrati is one of 23 girls spending two years in Kabul to train as a midwife before returning to her home village in the Central Highlands, part of a national programme supported by the United Nations…