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31 January 2011 – Poppy cultivation in Afghanistan is expected to decline slightly this year despite the current high prices of opium, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said today, basing the information on…

1 February 2011 - Thousands of health providers and volunteers in eastern and southern Afghanistan are making house calls today to vaccinate around 740,000 children in the country’s first polio immunization campaign of the…

31 January 2011 - In accordance with Afghan electoral laws, the United Nations-supported Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) today completed its mandate and closed down, transferring its archived information to the…

KABUL - The United Nations envoy on children and armed conflict today met with Afghan human rights leaders and members of the international community before wrapping up a two day visit to Kabul to co-sign a child protection…

30 January 2011 - Senior United Nations officials today paid tribute to Hamida Barmaki, an Afghan lawyer and human rights activist, who was killed on 28 January along with her husband and all four children in a suicide attack…

30 January 2011 - The Government of Afghanistan and the United Nations today signed a child protection plan to end recruitment and use of children in the Afghan National Security Forces and other violations. “Today’s…

30 January 2011 - The Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan today committed to take further action to protect children affected by armed conflict in Afghanistan by signing an agreement to prevent under-age…

28 January 2011 - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has condemned an attack on a supermarket in the centre of Kabul today, which has reportedly killed at least six civilians, including a child. UN…

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28 January 2011 - Landmines and explosive remnants of war continue to put thousands of communities in Afghanistan at risk of death or injury, but the problem can be solved with adequate funding of the de-mining effort, a…

28 January 2011 - An attack today at a popular city centre supermarket killed a number of civilians, including reportedly a child. Afghan police continue to investigate the attack, which occurred around 2.30 in the afternoon…

KABUL - Afghanistan’s Lower House of Parliament, the Wolesi Jirga, convened today as its 249 members were sworn in by President Hamid Karzai. This is the country’s second Parliament to be inaugurated since 2001. There are 69…