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KABUL - A top United Nations official in Afghanistan has repeated the world body’s call for all parties to the conflict to avoid civilian casualties, after an international military operation on Sunday reportedly killed at…

22 February 2010 - The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is running a poultry project for 2,000 families in Kunduz and Takhar provinces. The project will cover 2,000 more beneficiary families in Kunduz…

NEW YORK - A new report by UNESCO, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, examines how dangerous it has become for many young people to get an education. Bernard O'Malley, the author of the report, says the…

KABUL - The Government of Italy and UNESCO agree on a new project entitled “Development of (ERTV) for audio-visual support to teacher training in Afghanistan” to further capacity development of the Educational Radio and…

KABUL - Today the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Afghanistan, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the Government of Afghanistan officially presented the 2010 Humanitarian Action Plan…

21 February 2010 - United Nations agencies are working with the local government of Helmand to provide emergency humanitarian assistance to internally displaced persons (IDPs) as the influx of people from Marjah district…

NEW YORK - Badam Bagh prison is an improvement for Krishma and her young daughter. Just two years ago, they lived in the female section of Pol-e-Charkhi, the notorious Afghan jail. With no special provisions for mothers with…

20 February 2010 - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy, will be visiting Afghanistan from 20 to 26 February at the invitation of the Government. UN…

19 February 2010 - As a part of strengthening Afghanistan’s state institutions, United Nations human rights officers have trained about 30 members of the Afghan National Police and prosecutors on human rights in the justice…

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18 February 2010 - A two-day Training of Trainers (ToT) workshop was recently held in Kunduz for 40 doctors and health workers to prepare them for the first round of the polio vaccination campaign this coming spring in the…

KABUL - The United Nations humanitarian coordinator in Afghanistan today called on donors to shell out a total US$ 870.5 million to fund the emergency work for programmes and projects for the most vulnerable sectors of the…