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Second Afghanistan Human Rights Film Festival ends with awards and prizes ceremony

KABUL - The second International Afghanistan Human Rights Film Festival ended in the capital, Kabul, today, with an awards ceremony recognizing the best films screened over the past six days

10 Oct 2013

In first visit to Afghanistan, UN official urges safeguarding of advances made for women

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

08 Oct 2013

On World Habitat Day, UN chief calls for making cities and towns accessible to all

KABUL - Marking World Habitat Day today, the United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, has called for making cities and towns more accessible.

07 Oct 2013

New female wing in Gardez prison to help end discrimination issues

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

07 Oct 2013

Elections must be “Afghan-led and –owned,” UNAMA official tells seminar

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.”

06 Oct 2013

International film festival opens in Kabul with screening of Oscar-submitted Afghan feature film

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

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