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Despite end-of-year decline, 2011 food prices highest on record – UN

NEWYORK - Global food prices declined in December, but the overall annual average was the highest ever on record, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported today.

15 Jan 2012

Afghan opium prices soar as production rises

KABUL - The full Afghan Opium Survey for 2011 points to a dramatic increase of 133 per cent in the farm-gate value of opium compared with 2010 (the summary findings of the survey were issued in September 2011).

15 Jan 2012

UN food agency launches initiative to fight hunger in Afghan cities

KABUL - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced today a new food subsidy initiative geared towards providing Afghanistan’s urban poor with guaranteed access to provisions despite the threat of food insecurity across the country.

05 Jan 2012

This week's UN-supported TV and radio programmes on Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA)

KABUL - Coming up this week on RTA-UN television programmes CSA: Crime Scene Afghanistan and Mirror of the City, and radio's Afghanistan Emroz.

CSA: Crime Scene Afghanistan

05 Jan 2012

UN supports efforts for improving governance in Balkh Province

MAZAR - Around 300 representatives of civil society organizations alongside elected representatives of Provincial Council and high ranking government officials attended “One-Day Civil Society Conference” in Mazar-e-Sharif, the capital of Balkh Province.

22 Dec 2011

54 per cent of women affected by forced and underage marriage in Afghanistan

KABUL - Despite provisions in the Afghan constitution for protection of women’s rights and the law on the Elimination of Violence against Women (EVAW), and Afghan civil laws, 54 percent of women in Afghanistan are affected by forced and underage marriage, according to Afghan lega

21 Dec 2011

Legal practitioners assess forced and underage marriages in Afghanistan

KABUL - Over 80 representatives from Judiciary, Attorney General’s Office, Ministry of Interior, Prosecutors, human rights and civil society organizations started off discussions in Kabul on forced and underage marriages in Afghanistan.

18 Dec 2011

Report of the Secretary-General to the Security Council

NEW YORK - The report provides an update on the activities of the United Nations in Afghanistan, including significant humanitarian, development and human rights efforts, since my previous report issued on 21 September 2011 (A/66/369-S/2011/590).

13 Dec 2011

Greater political will needed to fight corruption in Afghanistan, senior UN officials urge

KABUL - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) today called on Afghan leaders to make greater use of the legal system to fight corruption during a national event marking Anti-Corruption Day.

11 Dec 2011

All female troupe performs for hundreds during the 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence

KANDAHAR - Family and social pressures to not allow girls to study, forced marriage and violence against women are the themes of a play written and performed by five high-school girls in the southern Afghan province of Nimroz with support from the United Nations Assistance Missio

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