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Hayatabad Iris Validation Centre

More Afghans return home from Pakistan camps despite concerns – UN refugee agency

4 August 2006
More than 1,000 Afghan refugees, some of whom have lived in camps in Pakistan for more than 25 years, went home this week in one of the year’s biggest return convoys organized by the United Nations refugee agency under its voluntary repatriation programme, which in the past four years has allowed over four million people to go back to Afghanistan.
Kabul girls football

Afghanistan: UN official honours winners of first-ever girls football competition

3 August 2006
A senior United Nations official today presented a trophy to the winners of the first-ever Kabul Girls Football Competition, a milestone event for young women in Afghanistan, where their rights were severely curtailed under the ousted Taliban regime, and voiced hope that sports would inspire them to pursue all of their dreams
Koïchiro Matsuura

Afghanistan: UNESCO chief ‘horrified’ at suicide bombings, targeting of media

2 August 2006
With violence escalating in Afghanistan, the head of the United Nations cultural agency today condemned a suicide bomb attack in Kandahar that killed a television cameraman and several other civilians, saying he was “particularly horrified” as the bombers had waited for a crowd to gather to inflict maximum suffering.