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Afghanistan enters new phase to ease climate change

KABUL - The Government of Afghanistan today took a step towards mitigating climate change by starting work on its first ever country report documenting emissions and removals of greenhouse gases within the United Nations framework.

09 Feb 2011

Few health services for IDPs as winter bites

KABUL - Tens of thousands of the internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Afghanistan are vulnerable to cold-related diseases but have little or no access to health services, according to aid agencies. IRIN st

02 Feb 2011

UN envoy on children and armed conflict wraps up Kabul visit

KABUL - The United Nations envoy on children and armed conflict today met with Afghan human rights leaders and members of the international community before wrapping up a two day visit to Kabul to co-sign a child protection plan with the Government of Afghanistan.

31 Jan 2011

Afghanistan’s Parliament convenes

KABUL - Afghanistan’s Lower House of Parliament, the Wolesi Jirga, convened today as its 249 members were sworn in by President Hamid Karzai. This is the country’s second Parliament to be inaugurated since 2001. There are 69 women members of the assembly.

26 Jan 2011

Fears over child recruitment, abuse by pro-government militias

KABUL - Pro-government militias in parts of Afghanistan are believed to be recruiting underage boys and sometimes sexually abusing them in an environment of criminal impunity, local people and human rights organizations say.

22 Jan 2011

UNODC warns that high opium prices may reverse the gains of recent years

KABUL - Soaring opium prices may induce more farmers to grow opium, warned the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in its full 2010 Afghanistan Opium Survey released today.

20 Jan 2011

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