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BALKH - An agreement on oil and gas extraction from the Afghan-Tajik basin in northeastern Afghanistan was signed on Tuesday with three companies, which would invest 12 billion US dollars in the energy-starved country.
KABUL - On his first visit to Afghanistan, a senior official with the United Nations agency dealing with gender equality and the empowerment of women emphasized the need for greater political and economic empowerment of Afghan women as well as the safeguarding of progress made
PAKTYA - The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) office in the southeastern region has noted that the incidents of violence against women has increased in Paktya, Paktika and Khost provinces.
KABUL - Marking World Habitat Day today, the United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, has called for making cities and towns more accessible.
GARDEZ - The particular needs of female prisoners in the south-eastern Afghan city of Gardez are being better-addressed following the United Nations-facilitated completion of a new female wing of the city prison – previously, the prisoners had been locked up in a metal shipping c
KABUL - Addressing a seminar in the western Afghan city of Herat, a senior United Nations official stressed that a key principal for the international community’s approach on the country’s Presidential election in 2014 is that they be “Afghan-led and -owned.”