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1 December 2010 KABUL, Afghanistan - On World AIDS Day, government health officials, the United Nations and its partners identify priority measures needed to tackle the increasing public health concern that HIV/AIDS poses in…

Religious scholars to raise awareness for elimination of violence against women 30 November 2010 - Religious scholars have vowed to raise public awareness on the elimination of violence against women in mosques and other…

30 November 2010 - UNIFEM (part of UN Women) expresses its thanks and appreciation to the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan for facilitating the visit of Ms Ines Alberdi, Executive Director, UNIFEM (part of UN…

KABUL - A media house in the east of Afghanistan has started broadcasting articles of an Afghan law that seeks to end violence against women, coinciding with the start of a 16-day global campaign against violence against…

27 November 2010 - A top United Nations official today stressed the need for a broad strategy and greater international cooperation to boost counter-narcotics and crime prevention efforts in Afghanistan. “To tackle the…

27 November 2010 - In a meeting today with Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan, Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), reaffirmed his Office’s commitment to support…

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24 November 2010 (UN News Centre, NY) - The top United Nations envoy in Afghanistan today welcomed the certification of nearly all the final results for September’s legislative elections, adding that the formation of a new…

23 November 2010 - Afghanistan needs a comprehensive Child Act fully in line with the provisions and principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. In Afghanistan today one in five children die before reaching their…

21 November 2010 - To mark World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, the World Health Organization and the Afghan Ministry of Public Health remember the many citizens who unnecessarily lost their lives in Afghanistan…

NEW YORK - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today that the search for peace through a political process in Afghanistan must be led by the people of that country themselves, and pledged United Nations' continued support for…

18 November 2010 - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will travel to Lisbon, Portugal, this weekend to attend a high-level meeting on Afghanistan held under the auspices of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Mr Ban…