Afghanistan
4 September 2013 – More than 180 female judges from across Afghanistan discussed problems they face while going about their duties, at a four-day annual conference of an umbrella body of female judges which concluded in…
Afghanistan
Child Marriage, Domestic Violence Harm Progress President Karzai Should Enforce Violence Against Women Law (New York, September 4, 2013) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai should take urgent action to fight child marriage and domestic violence or risk further…
Afghanistan
2 September 2013 – Two schools in the Yakawlang district of Afghanistan’s central Bamyan province have spent the past two weeks serving as the pilot sites for a United-Nations backed community policing project – locally known…
Afghanistan
Is the security situation deteriorating in Afghanistan? Afghanistan is a country still very much at war. Right now, it is the middle of the annual spring offensive, known as the “fighting season.” The wave of attacks in…
Afghanistan
Kabul, Afghanistan 21st August - About 500 young Afghans around the country gathered today at the Radio and Television Afghanistan Conference Hall to celebrate the International Youth Day 2013 with ‘Youth Migration: Moving Development Forward' as…
Afghanistan + 2 more
NANGARHAR, 19 August 2013 (IRIN) - Six years ago, when Najib* was 15, Taliban fighters came to his home in Shinwar District* in the eastern province of Nangarhar telling him to join them. After repeated visits,…
Afghanistan
Today the Government decided to start work on producing a new strategy for Swedish development assistance to Afghanistan for the period 2015-2019. Similar to the strategy for 2012-2014, the Government wants development assistance for the period 2015-2019…
Afghanistan
KABUL, 4 August 2013 – The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) strongly condemns the suicide attack which took place yesterday in front of the Indian consulate in Jalalabad, the capital of the eastern province…
Afghanistan
01 August 2013 - Concerns about women's rights in Afghanistan are growing and risk being ignored, according to a comprehensive recently-released report by the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). The report…
Afghanistan
July 2013: UNICEF correspondent Karishma Vyas reports on a UNICEF-supported programme that saved a 10-year-old Afghan girl from being forced to marry. By Rajat Madhok On 31 July 2013, UNICEF unveils a global initiative calling for an end…
