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KABUL - For decades the United Nations has worked to free people from poverty.
We have made great progress — but today those gains are in doubt.
Too many people are living in fear:
Fear of losing their jobs;
KABUL - This year’s International Day of Rural Women falls at a time of heightened awareness of the important contribution women are making to social progress. Women have been rightly recognized for their role in supporting movements for democracy, human rights and peace.
BAMYAN - Afghanistan’s only Olympian athlete today urged Bamyan youth to keep playing for peace during the final match of the month-long Bamyan Peace Day Football Tournament.
NEWYORK - The cultivation in Afghanistan of opium poppies – the crop used to make heroin and other drugs – has increased by seven per cent this year because of continued insecurity and higher prices, a United Nations-backed survey reveals today.
NEWYORK - The Security Council today extended the authorization of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan for another year, welcoming the agreement between the country and troop-contributing States to gradually transfer key security responsibilities to
KABUL - UNAMA today released a report that documents the torture and mistreatment of detainees in a number of detention facilities of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) and Afghan National Police (ANP) across the country.