KANDAHAR - Raising awareness about women’s rights and gender-based violence was the aim of a series of UN-backed radio debates in the country’s southern province of Zabul.

BAMYAN - At a UN-backed event in the central province of Bamyan, leading Afghan social media activists affirmed their commitment to highlight the critical importance of ending violence against women.

HERAT - Addressing residents of Herat in a series of televised UN events, religious scholars emphasized the critical importance of institutionalizing the principles of peace at all levels of provincial society, from the social to the political.