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9 September 2010 - HIV/AIDS is the focus of a door-to-door campaign carried out by young people in the south-eastern province of Nangarhar. Youth groups have recently conducted nearly 400 awareness-raising sessions across six…

8 September 2010 - The top United Nations envoy to Afghanistan today voiced his outrage over the threat by a religious group in the United States to burn copies of the Koran, warning that it could endanger the lives of those…

8 September 2010 - On behalf of the United Nations and the whole international community present in Afghanistan, I would like to express in the strongest possible terms our concern and indeed outrage at the announcement by a…

8 September 2010 - This year’s observance of International Literacy Day highlights the central role of literacy in the empowerment of women. Literacy transforms the lives of women, their families, communities and societies…

7 September 2010 - Joint United Nations-Turquoise Mountain youth arts exhibition for International Peace Day at Queen’s Palace, Babur Garden, Kabul, Afghanistan OPENING ADDRESS Besmillah Rahman Raheem, Ramazan Kareem Thank…

KABUL - “The Power of Women’s Literacy” is this year’s International Literacy Day theme. Improving Afghanistan’s literacy is a key development goal for the country, which has only 26 per cent literacy among over 15-year-olds…

KABUL - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) fully supports the reaffirmation today by Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission (IEC) of its definitive decision that it will conduct the 18…

KABUL - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) fully supports the reaffirmation today by Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission (IEC) of its definitive decision that it will conduct the 18…

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1 September 2010 - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) today launched its International Peace Day campaign for 2010 with the broadcast of television and radio spots promoting peace. “We are reaching…

KABUL - A group of experts from the World Health Organization spent last week on a surveillance mission across the country with the aim to gauge the effectiveness of Afghanistan's surveillance system that is used to detect…

31 August 2010 - A cholera outbreak that struck at least 130 people in the Nowa district of the province of Ghazni in Afghanistan’s central highlights is now under control. The outbreak started on 9 August, when a health NGO…