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Mine awareness exhibition highlights approach of International Mine Action Day

KABUL - Today, Kabul’s Babur Gardens was host to 240 children learning how to avoid the dangers posed by landmines and other explosive remnants of war at an event organized by the Mine Action Coordination Centre of Afghanistan (MACCA).

24 Feb 2010

Latest loss of Afghan lives prompts UN call for safeguarding civilians during conflict

KABUL - A top United Nations official in Afghanistan has repeated the world body’s call for all parties to the conflict to avoid civilian casualties, after an international military operation on Sunday reportedly killed at least 27 people, including women and children, in the sou

22 Feb 2010

UNESCO looks at education, especially for girls, under attack

NEW YORK - A new report by UNESCO, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, examines how dangerous it has become for many young people to get an education.

21 Feb 2010

Afghanistan women’s prison

NEW YORK - Badam Bagh prison is an improvement for Krishma and her young daughter.

Just two years ago, they lived in the female section of Pol-e-Charkhi, the notorious Afghan jail.

20 Feb 2010

2009 was the worst year for journalists: Committee to Protect Journalists

NEW YORK - The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says that 2009 was the worst year for reporters in its 30-year history.

17 Feb 2010

Afghanistan and Pakistan go to war – against polio!

KABUL - It is not just the conventional military war the governments of Afghanistan and Pakistan are fighting in the rugged mountains shared by the South Asian neighbours.

15 Feb 2010

Former mujahideen trade in weapons for bees!

QARABAGH - Barely an hour away from the bustle of Kabul and the miasma of Afghan politics, change is taking place, albeit slowly, in Qarabagh, the second largest district of Kabul province.

14 Feb 2010

2.8 million children to be reached in Afghan polio immunization drive

KABUL - Some 2.8 million children under five years old in southern, south-eastern, western and eastern Afghanistan will be targeted by a new three-day polio eradication drive to be launched today.

14 Feb 2010

Teachers and students increasingly under attack, UNESCO warns

KABUL - A new report by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has found that politically and ideologically motivated attacks against teachers, students and schools are on the rise, calling for greater community involvement to reduce such in

11 Feb 2010

UNODC predicts stable opium crop in Afghanistan

KABUL - In a report issued today, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) projects a stable opium crop in Afghanistan in 2010.

10 Feb 2010

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