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27 April 2011 – Metal signs with legal and religious quotes in support of women’s rights are being placed around the northern province of Kunduz to raise public awareness about women’s issues. The first two of six signs were…

26 April 2011- The penalties that Afghan women suffer whenever allegations of pre-marital sex and loss of virginity emerge, including death, are extreme, discriminatory and not in the penal code, activists said. IRIN story “I…

25 April 2011 - Children at Bamyan Orphanage in the Central Highlands Region expressed their hopes for peace during a recent meeting with the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC). The children presented…

KABUL - An ambitious effort to plant one million trees is underway in Afghanistan which for the first year is counting its trees as part of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) Billion Tree Campaign. The Billion…

24 April 2011 – The Eastern Regional Office of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) today donated electronic equipment and furniture to a newly established public information centre at the Nangarhar…

24 April 2011 - In the two months since the resumption of the United Nations voluntary repatriation programme more than 5,500 Afghan refugees have been able to return home. Meeting the immediate needs of the returnees is the…

20 April 2011 - Journalists can make the government in Afghanistan better, according to the theme of a two-day regional conference in Kunduz which kicked off today with more than 140 representatives of government and media.…

18 April 2011 – Poppy cultivation in Afghanistan is expected to decline slightly this year despite the prevailing high prices of opium, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reported today, saying that…

18 April 2011 (IRIN) - Aid agencies and education officials are concerned that scaling down school feeding programmes in impoverished rural areas of Afghanistan could adversely affect school attendance and the health and…

19 April 2011 - The Ministry of Public Health in partnership with UNICEF and WHO is resuming for the second year vaccination weeks with a comprehensive package designed to protect children in vulnerable and hard-to-reach…

18 April 2011 – United Nations aid agencies and partner organizations in northeastern Afghanistan today strengthened the regional contingency plan in case of a natural or human induced disaster. The main objective of this…

18 April 2011 (UNODC) - A slight decrease in poppy cultivation can be expected in Afghanistan in 2011, despite the current high price of opium, shows the Opium Winter Rapid Assessment Survey (ORAS) released by UNODC today…