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KABUL - To prevent and respond to child recruitment and use in the National Security Forces, and to improve age-verification mechanisms, the Government of Afghanistan officially launched age assessment guidelines at a high-level meeting in Kabul.
KANDAHAR - Civil society organizations and provincial anti-graft officials met at a UNAMA-backed event to form a new Anti-Corruption Group to tackle corruption in Afghanistan’s southern province of Kandahar.
HERAT - The international community is committed to supporting Herat throughout 2016, said UN officials and others gathered at the International Stakeholders’ Forum this week in Afghanistan’s western province.
LAGHMAN - Women in Laghman and Nangarhar provinces in eastern Afghanistan have come together at UNAMA-backed meetings to discuss ways they can participate more effectively in elections, the peace process and local governance.
KABUL - Afghan senior editors and media professionals are critically concerned about the future of freedom of expression in Afghanistan due to heightened intimidation and attacks directed at media workers.
KABUL - To meet the acute life-saving needs of the most vulnerable and marginalized Afghans during 2016, the humanitarian community is appealing for $393 million in funding, which will reach an estimated 3.5 million people.
HERAT - Raising awareness about women’s rights and eliminating violence against women is the focus of a joint UN-Afghanistan outreach initiative which will run during 2016 in the western province of Herat.
NEW YORK - Violent extremism is a direct assault on the United Nations Charter and a grave threat to international peace and security.
KABUL - Global efforts to meet new development goals tackling poverty, inequality and injustice, and climate change kicked off this year.
KABUL - The humanitarian community in Afghanistan is likely to be called upon in 2016 to redouble efforts made last year to provide life-saving assistance said the Humanitarian Coordinator, Mark Bowden.