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NEW YORK - Increasing economic and social disparities pose a threat to children’s rights, Secretary-General Bank Ki-moon said today, stressing that much more needs to be done to safeguard millions of young people around the world.
NEW YORK - Civilians are bearing the brunt of conflict in several countries, the United Nations top humanitarian official said today, reminding parties to such disputes of the their obligation under international humanitarian law to respect non-combatants and to protect them from
NEW YORK - An Afghan women’s rights campaigner and a Palestinian peace activist are the winners of a United Nations award recognizing their outstanding contributions to the promotion of tolerance and non-violence, the UN announced today.
KABUL - The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) chief today reiterated that the agency’s work in Afghanistan is purely humanitarian in a visit meant to honour staff killed in last week’s attack in the southern city of Kandahar.
NEW YORK - Environmental degradation could undermine local and international security by reinforcing and increasing grievances within and between societies, the United Nations Environment Protection Agency (UNEP) has said, marking the International Day for Preventing the Exploita
KANDAHAR - The “If I can do it, you can do it too” campaign run by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) launched role model speak series in the Southern Region where hundreds of schools girls and women heard from Parliamentarian Rana Tarin in Kandahar and
2 November 2011 - The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) today launched its Human Development Report 2011 entitled Sustainability and Equality: A Better Future for All. Click here to read more about the report.
KABUL - H.E. the Minister of Counter Narcotics of Afghanistan, Zarar Ahmad Moqbel Osmani and the Country Office Representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Afghanistan, Mr.
28 October 2011 - The number of Afghan refugees returning home has dropped substantially this year, with some 60,000 repatriating in the first 10 months compared to more than 100,000 over the same period in 2010, the United Nations refugee agency repo
KUNDUZ - The first private radio station established by women in the northeastern region today started broadcasting a six-part United Nations radio series, Toward the Better Future.