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11 April 2010 - The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Afghan Ministry of Women Affairs (MoWA) have signed the Annual Work Plan on Gender as they renewed their commitment to reduce gender-based violence and empower women in Afghanistan. The Annual Work Plan (AWP) 2010 – consisting of…

11 April 2010 - The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Afghanistan today launched in Kabul the UNDP Asia-Pacific Human Development Report identifying three key areas “where policy interventions will produce results for gender equality” – building economic power; promoting political voice…

12 April 2010 - Latest news and information from various United Nations agencies in Afghanistan. MACCA CONDEMNS ATTACKS ON DEMINERS The Mine Action Coordination Centre of Afghanistan (MACCA) today condemned attacks on humanitarian deminers, following an attack on a team working for an NGO DAFA in…

12 April 2010 - The Mine Action Coordination Centre of Afghanistan (MACCA) today condemned attacks on humanitarian deminers, following an attack on a team working for Afghan NGO DAFA in Kandahar on the 11 April which resulted in the death of four deminers and a further 17 being injured. MACCA is the…

13 April 2010 - A centre coordinating the detection and removal of landmines in Afghanistan on Monday condemned an attack on deminers in the country. UN Radio report The attack, which happened on a team working for the Demining Agency for Afghanistan in Kandahar on 11 April, killed four deminers and…

14 April 2010 - On 11 April, a bus carrying a group of deminers on their way to go to work in Kandahar province’s Daman district was struck by a roadside bomb. Five of the deminers were killed, and 16 injured, according to the Demining Agency for Afghanistan, which employs the deminers. Staffan de…

15 April 2010 - The Balkhi hall, in the centre of Herat is adorned for the occasion: Huge blocks of raw marble have been set outside the venue. Inside, statues, tiles, mantelpieces and fountains in the shape of birds, which are all made out of marble, are proudly on display everywhere. For three…

15 April 2010 - On Monday, four civilians were reportedly killed and 18 others injured in the Zhari district of Kandahar province, when international military forces fired at a bus. The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Afghanistan, Staffan de Mistura, said: “I am…

KABUL - There are a few types of workers who on the one hand, save people's lives, but on the other sometimes put their own lives in danger as well. Deminers are among them. On the early morning of 11 April, a group of deminers took a bus to work at a mine field in Kandahar province’s Daman district…

15 April 2010 - United Nations envoy Staffan de Mistura, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan, today called on the competent Afghan authorities to ensure a quick and thorough investigation into the case of three Italian medical workers and their six Afghan colleagues…

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KABUL - The top United Nations envoy in Afghanistan today voiced his concern over a “disturbing trend” of civilian casualties caused by recent international military operations in the country, urging greater efforts to protect non-combatants. On 12 April, four civilians were reportedly killed and 18…