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KABUL - Last week saw the completion of a legal training on investigating and documenting abuses of detainee rights. The event was held in Kunduz and was a collaboration between UNAMA, EUPOL, and the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission.
BAMYAN - This week 285 Mullahs from throughout Bamyan province completed a UN-supported workshop on gender equality.
KABUL - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has partnered with religious institutions to provide solar panels that will power much-needed electricity to schools as well as promote the use of renewable energy.
KABUL - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called for concerted efforts to help Afghanistan extricate itself from the scourge of drug production, use and trafficking, noting that the country’s stability remains at stake with an estimated 15 per cent of its income accruing from t
NEW YORK - Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, The drug trade degrades individuals and destabilizes nations. It is a threat to the well-being and development of Afghanistan and its neighbours.
PARIS - Ján Kubiš, Special Representative to the Secretary-General for Afghanistan, addressed the Third Ministerial Conference of the Paris Pact Partners.
KABUL - The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is boosting its technical support to help rebuild Afghanistan’s dilapidated traditional irrigation systems, which have been neglected for decades owing to war and migration away from rural areas.
KABUL - The United Nations envoy for children and armed conflict today called for universal ratification of a treaty protocol that outlaws the use of minors to fight wars and encourages States to set 18 years as the minimum age for recruitment.
KABUL - A majority of workers in Afghanistan’s brick kilns are child bonded labourers under the age of 14, according to a new survey commissioned by the International Labour Organization (ILO).
KABUL - The head of the United Nations entity mandated to promote gender equality today said that her priority this year is to enhance the economic empowerment and political participation of women and called for the support of the international community and the entire UN system