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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.”
BALKH - Work on a railroad between the Kaldar district of Balkh province and Tajikistan would be launched in the next six months.
KABUL - The second International Afghanistan Human Rights Film Festival officially opened in the capital, Kabul, yesterday, with the screening of ‘Wajma’ – a feature film which Afghanistan has submitted for competition in the Best Foreign Language Film category at next year’s Aca