Kabul: Marking International Human Rights Day, the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) underscores the enduring importance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on its 70t ...
New York: As gender-equality advocates discuss how a lasting peace can be secured in Afghanistan, the top UN official in the country has underscored the importance of women’s partic ...
Kabul: Women’s full, equal and meaningful participation in peace processes was the focus of this year’s Afghanistan-wide Global Open Days events, a series of nationwide dialog ...
Kabul: The Afghanistan government has said it is going to recruit 30,000 female teachers within five years.
New York: In the wake of dozens of civilian deaths – the most recent, a suicide attack in Jalalabad on Sunday – a high-level United Nations representative on the ground called ...
New York: Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan reached a record-high last year, leading to unprecedented levels of potential heroin on the world market, the United Nations Office on Dru ...
Kabul: Journalists in Afghanistan face threats, intimidation and violence for simply doing their jobs, Amnesty International said on World Press Freedom Day as it honoured the memory of t ...
Kabul: Afghanistan president Ashraf Ghani has appointed Durani Waziri as his new deputy spokeswomen, officials said on Sunday.
New York: The Security Council on Thursday renewed the mandate of the United Nations political mission in Afghanistan for another year to continue providing assistance to the Government a ...
- Avoiding human rights catastrophe: Islamabad urged to halt Afghan deportations
- Pakistan expels more than 3,000 Afghan refugees
- Human rights experts urge Pakistan to stop planned mass deportation of Afghans
- UN agencies asks Pakistan to protect Afghan refugees
- Afghanistan consul general in Karachi alleges Pakistani police are continuing to detain refugees
