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Cash assistance to Internally Displaced Persons in Al NAbek, Rural Damascus. Photo OCHA. Credit UNHCR.

UN refugee agency aims to double funds for cash-based assistance to refugees by 2020

31 October 2016
News Story
Saba Ismail.

Being a woman human rights defender in Pakistan is “risky”

28 October 2016
UN Gender Focus
Audio
Destruction at the World Heritage site of Palmyra in Syria. (file)

Destruction of cultural heritage is an attack on people and their fundamental rights – UN expert

27 October 2016
News Story
Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan Pernille Kardel.

UN ‘Global Open Day’ emphasizes Afghan women’s role in fighting violent extremism

26 October 2016
News Story
Families from Ghor Province, Afghanistan, gather by fires to stave off cold temperatures. About 300 people are living in makeshift shelters and tents after fleeing their homes due to fighting and drought, which ruined their harvests.

UN mission ‘outraged’ at killing of hostages in central Afghanistan

26 October 2016
News Story
Chaloka Beyani (left) is interviewed by Mohammad Hamed Haleemi of UN Radio.

Countries urged not to “turn back” on Afghanistan

26 October 2016
General News
Audio
Poppy fields in Afghanistan.

Opium production surges by 43% in Afghanistan

24 October 2016
General News
Audio
Opium poppy field in Afghanistan.

UN cites ‘worrying reversal’ in efforts to tackle illicit drugs as Afghan opium production soars

24 October 2016
News Story
A medical worker gives a child two drops of oral polio vaccine at a temporary medical centre in Bzebiz Displacement Camp, Baghdad, Iraq.

On World Polio Day, UN kicks off weeklong campaign to immunize 5.8 million Iraqi children

24 October 2016
News Story
A view of Bamyan National Park in September 2016. Afghanistan is characterized by rugged mountains, with more than half of the land area above 2,000 metres. There are also lakes and rivers, with most new water supply coming from rain and snow melt.

Afghanistan: UN report finds settling water disputes key to economic growth, avoiding conflict

23 October 2016
News Story