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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

06 Oct 2013

UNAMA registers 16 per cent rise in civilian casualties in Afghanistan

KABUL - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) registered a 16 per cent rise in the number of Afghan civilians killed or wounded during the first eight months of this year compared to the same period last year, a senior UNAMA official told a news conference

02 Oct 2013

Gathering of Afghan journalists in Kabul concludes with pledge to cover 2014 polls responsibly

KABUL - Over 200 Afghan journalists, who gathered in the capital, Kabul, this week for the first-ever national congress of one of the country’s leading journalists’ association, vowed to cover next year’s Presidential and Provincial Council elections, slated for 5 April, responsi

02 Oct 2013

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