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DAIKUNDI - Religious leaders must play a role in promoting peace in Afghanistan, Islamic scholars and community elders urged at a UN-backed event in the central Afghan province of Daikundi. More than 50 religious and…

KABUL - Empowering young Afghans remains crucial for the country’s development, according to a United Nations report released in Kabul today. “Investing in Youth,” a new United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) report, focuses…

KANDAHAR - Greater protection of women from violence and legal action against perpetrators of violence should be among the key benefits of Afghanistan’s Elimination of Violence Against Women (EVAW) law, according to panelists…

BAMYAN - Improving Afghan women’s access to justice was the focus of discussions among rights experts at a UNAMA-organized meeting in Bamyan province. Representatives of the provincial court and prosecutor’s office, defense…

22 July 2015 - Guinea-Bissau is one of the poorest countries in the world with one of the lowest human development indexes and also one of the countries that receive more external financial support, including from the United…

KABUL - Identifying Afghanistan’s security challenges as a “regional phenomenon,” the top UN envoy in the country called for the region to extend to Afghans the support they need to confront what he called “significant…

KABUL - Eliminating fraud and building trust in Afghan elections are the objectives of a newly established electoral reform body, said one of its members at a Kabul press conference today. The Special Electoral Reform…

KABUL - The importance of enhancing women’s political role in Afghanistan, particularly in peace talks, was highlighted in a new UN radio programme broadcast today. In the latest segment of UNAMA’s “Afghanistan Emrooz,”…

15 July 2015 - UNIOGBIS through its Rule of Law and Security Institutions (ROLSI), Police Reform Section, concluded today in Bissau, a four-week training for instructors of the presidential security team. The course covered…

4 July 2015 - The United Nations have commemorated the 4th July as the International Day of Cooperatives. According to the UN, the cooperative is an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their economic…