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Afghanistan: UN-backed anti-drug task force starts up operations

28 July 2005
The United Nations-backed special counter-narcotics Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF), created to fast-track major drug cases within Afghanistan, officially began operations today, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said.

Joint UN-Afghan election board condemns murder, abduction of poll workers

25 July 2005
The joint United Nations-Afghan body handling elections in Afghanistan condemned today in the strongest terms violence against people seeking to stabilize the war-torn country following last week’s murder of one election worker and the kidnapping of two more.
Afghan refugees leaving Pakistan for home

UN says Afghan refugees repatriated from Pakistan pass 2.5 million mark

21 July 2005
The number of Afghans who have returned from Pakistan to their war-torn homeland has now passed the 2.5 million mark, the United Nations refugee agency announced today.

Violence against women in Afghanistan remains dramatic – UN expert

18 July 2005
From forced child marriages entailing physical and sexual abuse to the public execution of a woman on local council’s orders, from girls burning themselves to death out of despair to impunity for abusers, violence against women in Afghanistan is a dramatic problem that must be addressed now, a top United Nations expert said today.

Afghanistan: UN-supported reconstruction fund reaches $1 billion

11 July 2005
The three-year-old United Nations-supported Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF) has received, as of the end of June, over $1 billion for projects ranging from the recurrent and capital costs of the Government to priority programmes, such as micro-financing, education, power, water supply and sanitation.

Afghan government invites UN expert on violence against women to visit

7 July 2005
The United Nations expert on violence against women is to begin a 10-day fact-finding mission to Afghanistan this weekend at the invitation of the Government of a country where women’s rights were seriously restricted under the Taliban regime ousted four years ago.

UN-backed generic medicines factory being set up in Afghanistan

5 July 2005
A project, co-sponsored by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), got under way in Afghanistan today with the arrival in Kabul of donated production machinery for the country's first-ever generic medicine factory, which will eventually produce 300 million to 400 million tablets of safe, urgently needed analgesics and antibiotics for local use.

UN agency rushes food aid to flood-afflicted families in Afghanistan

1 July 2005
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is rushing aid to some 1,400 Afghan families affected by flooding that has devastated housing and vital agricultural lands in various parts of the country.

UN completes registration for return of Afghans in troubled Northern Pakistan

1 July 2005
The United Nations refugee agency has completed registering some 27,000 Afghans wishing to return home from Pakistan following the closure of camps in troubled North Waziristan, where clashes between Pakistani military and rebel tribesman linked to fighting in their home country have made it impossible to assist them.