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27 May 2011 - Secretary-Ban Ki-moon today underlined the huge benefits societies reap from ensuring that girls and women have access to education, saying the opportunity to acquire knowledge creates a new generation of…

26 May 2011 - This programme examines secondary education in Afghanistan, including the latest achievements but also challenges the Ministry of Education currently faces. Feature interviews include the Media Advisor to the…

25 May 2011 – Major fossil fuel exporting and importing nations in the Asia-Pacific, meeting at a United Nations forum, agreed today to enhance cooperation to promote energy self-reliance in a region where high food and oil…

23 May 2011 - The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) has drafted a plan committing Member States and development partners to implement priority nutrition interventions and policies on health care, education and…

25 May 2011 - The Sharia Faculty of Takhar University in northern Afghanistan is today holding a conference on the Sharia law, the Afghan Constitution and human rights. The conference comes one day after a similar event was…

24 May 2011 – Speaking in front of Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai and his cabinet members in the Presidential Palace, a woman is making a series of demands. She is a representative from a District Development Assembly…

JALALABAD - Like many Afghan returnees, when Sayd Arif returned to Afghanistan in 2005 his main concern was where to live. Arif said he could have never afforded to buy a plot of land and build a house on his own. He was…

KABUL - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) is deeply concerned about recent events in Taluqan city, Takhar province that resulted in deaths and injuries to civilians. English Following a night raid…

21 May 2011 – Cultural diversity brings vital spiritual, social and economic benefits, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, urging people to take steps in their own lives to strengthen the connections they have to each…

22 May 2011 - Linda Norgrove posthumously received this week the Green Star Award, a joint initiative of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and Green Cross…