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08 May 2011 Kabul – The World Press Freedom Day, was celebrated today in Kabul in International Press Center of Ministry of Information and Culture, to highlight and recognize the most important achievement of the post…

UNAMA is proud to announce that the work of Fardin Waezi, one of our staff photographers, will be on display in London. Waezi's photographs are components of two other exhibitions, Afghanistan: Crossroads of the Ancient World…

04 May 2011 Kabul – On the occasion of Education for All (EFA) Global Action Week, UNESCO Kabul along with the Afghan Ministry of Education nationally launched the EFA Global Monitoring Report (GMR) 2011 in Kabul. Press…

KABUL - From just one radio station in 2001 to hundreds of news outlets now operating in Afghanistan, the growth of the media sector is one of the country’s greatest success stories and a huge step towards enabling the…

3 May 2011 - World Press Freedom Day was born twenty years ago in the vision of a group of journalists gathered in Windhoek, Namibia. The Windhoek Declaration was a call to arms to protect the fundamental principles of the…

KABUL - With announcements of a planned increase in fighting and hostilities in Afghanistan in the coming months, we call, as the United Nations and on behalf of all Afghans, on all parties to take all necessary measures to…

30 April 2011 – With announcements of a planned increase in fighting and hostilities in Afghanistan in the coming months, we call, as the United Nations and on behalf of all Afghans, on all parties to take all necessary…

27 April 2011 – Dozens of religious scholars or “Ulemas” in eastern Afghanistan today vowed to help work towards peace and reconciliation in Afghanistan. Speaking at a meeting called by the Eastern Regional Office of United…

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…