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KABUL - A senior official with the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) today told a group of representatives of civil society organizations that the Mission continues to strongly advocate for enhancing…

KABUL - The top United Nations official in Afghanistan today told a meeting of the Security Council in New York that the country's Presidential and Provincial Council elections next month should not be a ‘winner takes all’…

NEW YORK - The latest report on Afghanistan by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has been released in New York.Mr. Ban’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, Ján Kubiš, is scheduled to present the report – The…

KABUL - Condemning the killing of a Swedish-British journalist in Kabul on Tuesday, an Afghan media rights group today called on the Government of Afghanistan to take “serious measures” for ensuring the protection of…

KABUL - She was supposed to be an engineer. But Jamila Bayaz lasted a year studying engineering at Kabul University before finally convincing her family to let her join Afghanistan’s police force.That was three decades ago…

KABUL - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) was today joined by Afghan officials and activists in marking International Women’s Day (8 March) at a ceremony in the capital, Kabul, in which they…

KABUL - The women’s committee of the High Peace Council (HPC), an Afghan body leading the country’s peace efforts, today submitted a petition – containing the signatures of more than 250,000 Afghan women and girls calling for…

KABUL - An independent monitoring body for the implementation of United Nations drug control conventions has urged Afghanistan – the world’s largest producer of opium – to translate into “concrete action and results” its…

KABUL - While welcoming the first report of the Government of Afghanistan on the implementation of a landmark law that seeks to stem violence against women, a senior human rights official with the United Nations Assistance…

BRUSSELS - Below is the briefing by the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Representative and the head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Ján Kubiš, to the "Meeting of the North Atlantic Council with…

KABUL - A new booklet containing Afghanistan’s first Code of Conduct for its national police force will soon be in the hands of Afghan National Police (ANP) personnel across the country. Released this week, the illustrated…

KABUL - By Afghan tradition, on the 40th day after the death of four United Nations staff in a terrorist attack on a restaurant in the Afghan capital, Kabul, the UN staff remembered their colleagues in a brief memorial…