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KABUL - The 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence is an international campaign that runs from 25 November, International Day of Elimination of Violence against Women, through 10 December, International Human Rights Day…

KABUL - Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime ( UNODC), Yury Fedotov, has met President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan ahead of the International Conference on Afghanistan taking place in Bonn…

28 November - Amid concerns over the rising production and value of Afghan opium, Ministers from Afghanistan, the Islamic Republic of Iran and Pakistan met today in Kabul to enhance responses to regional security challenges.…

28 November 2011 – The head of the United Nations Office for Drug and Crimes ( UNODC) today praised counter-narcotics ministers from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran on the signing of a declaration which will increase…

KABUL - The 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence is an international campaign that runs from 25 November, International Day of Elimination of Violence against Women, through 10 December, International Human Rights Day…

KABUL - The 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence is an international campaign that runs from 25 November, International Day of Elimination of Violence against Women, through 10 December, International Human Rights Day…

KABUL - The 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence is an international campaign that runs from 25 November, International Day of Elimination of Violence against Women, through 10 December, International Human Rights Day…

KABUL - The 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence is an international campaign that runs from 25 November, International Day of Elimination of Violence against Women, through 10 December, International Human Rights Day…

KABUL - This week’s feature examines day-to-day problems faced by families who return to Afghanistan after years spent living in refugee camps outside the country. Through interviews with Afghan residents, as well as United…

NEW YORK - Violence against women and girls takes many forms and is widespread throughout the globe. It includes rape, domestic violence, harassment at work, abuse in school, female genital mutilation and sexual violence in…

23 November 2011 – Top United Nations officials today called for engaging all of society, and especially young people, to end violence against women, a scourge that spans the globe and takes many forms, including rape…

KABUL - There is a long way to go before the rights of Afghan women are fully protected, says a United Nations report released today, noting that the Government has not yet succeeded in applying a two-year-old landmark law to…