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QALAT - The peace process and infrastructure development were among the topics addressed by a UNAMA team during a series of meetings with local authorities and community representatives in Zabul province. Discussions took…

KANDAHAR - Colleagues and friends of Toopaki Ulfat gathered in Kandahar today to pay tribute to her life and express their sense of loss on account of her murder earlier this week. Staff from across the UN family were joined…

HERAT - UNAMA has brought together a group of Herat-based diplomats to discuss ways of improving the planning and coordination of development assistance in Afghanistan’s Western Region. During the meeting in Herat…

BAMYAN - Achieving sustainable peace in Afghanistan was the focus of the latest gathering, in Bamyan, held as part of the nationwide People’s Dialogue process. The UNAMA-supported gathering in the central province of Bamyan…

KABUL - With the security setting in Kunduz remaining fluid and with civilians placed at risk, UNAMA is continuing its mandated work to track and report on the human rights of those caught in the conflict. In line with its…

KABUL - The UN’s top official in Afghanistan, speaking to representatives from a Kabul university, stressed the need for women to participate in peace talks. Women should influence the agenda and participate in talks, said…

KABUL - The young people of Afghanistan can be a powerful force for peace and stability in the country, said panellists during two UNAMA-backed radio programmes broadcast to an audience estimated at 500,000 in the country’s…

NEW YORK - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met today with Afghanistan Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah to discuss the work undertaken in the first year of the National Unity Government and the current situation…

GENEVA - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein today expressed deep concern about the human rights situation in Afghanistan's northeastern city of Kunduz following a major Taliban attack yesterday. He…

NEW YORK - The President of the General Assembly today challenged the United Nations to generate the political will to end conflict and poverty and invest the trillions of dollars that will be needed to build a sustainable…

HERAT - The rights of young women were the focus of a series of UNAMA-backed theatrical performances last week for hundreds of children at schools in Afghanistan’s western province of Herat. Actors from the Herat Theatre…

NEW YORK - Continued international engagement in Afghanistan is critical to avoid waves of people from leaving the country, United Nations envoy Nicholas Haysom said in a UN radio interview broadcast from New York this week…