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KABUL - The Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Mr Yury Fedotov crossed to the Sher Khan border in Kunduz on Tuesday and met with the Afghan National Police North Zonal Commander and…

KABUL - A media house in the east of Afghanistan has started broadcasting articles of an Afghan law that seeks to end violence against women, coinciding with the start of a 16-day global campaign against violence against…

24 November 2010 - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General to Guinea-Bissau, Joseph Mutaboba, today attends in Abuja an ECOWAS ministerial meeting focused on the Security Sector Reform (SSR) in Guinea-Bissau. The…

23 November 2010 - The Security Council today extended the mandate of the United Nations office in Guinea-Bissau until 31 December 2011, while voicing deep concern at the continuing instability in the country. The UN…

NEW YORK - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today that the search for peace through a political process in Afghanistan must be led by the people of that country themselves, and pledged United Nations' continued support for…

5 November 2010 - Plans to reform Guinea-Bissau's security sector, reintegrate former combatants and end impunity in the country, if properly pursued, would create the conditions for wider international cooperation with the…

5 November 2010 - The latest United Nations Secretary-General's report on Guinea-Bissau is analyzed Friday by the Security Council while the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Guinea-Bissau, Joseph Mutaboba…

25 October 2010 - UNIOGBIS, in partnership with Guinea-Bissau institutions, on Monday started two workshops on gender responsive budgeting and on Human Rights directed to Guinea-Bissau Members of Parliament (MPs) and for…

5 October 2010 - Guinea-Bissau political and military situation was at the center of a meeting on Tuesday in Bissau, between the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General and his African Union counterpart. SRSG…

KABUL - Around 7.8 million children across all 34 provinces of Afghanistan will be targeted during a 3-day polio vaccination drive. Officially launched in Kabul on Sunday, what makes this campaign unique is the introduction…