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Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan Pernille Kardel.
UNAMA/Fardin Waezi

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

26 October 2016
Following a meeting with Afghan civil society representatives today in Kabul, senior UN officials stressed that securing women’s rights is essential to strategies that combat violent extremism and encouraged the Government to develop and implement human-rights based and gender sensitive polices to address to address its drivers.
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.
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UN mission ‘outraged’ at killing of hostages in central Afghanistan

26 October 2016
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has strongly condemned the killing of 26 civilians who were earlier taken hostage by a group of armed men in country’s central Ghor province.
Opium poppy field in Afghanistan.
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UN cites ‘worrying reversal’ in efforts to tackle illicit drugs as Afghan opium production soars

24 October 2016
Opium production in Afghanistan rose by 43 per cent to 4,800 metric tons in 2016 from 2015, according to the latest figures released today by the Afghan Ministry of Counter Narcotics and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
The Bish-Bator compound in Afghanistan where around 650 conflict-displaced families live.
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UN human rights expert calls upon Afghan Government to urgently address displacement crisis

20 October 2016
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) today urged the Government of Afghanistan and the international community to strengthen efforts and collaboration in order to support the increasing number of people who are leaving their homes due to a deteriorating security situation within the country.
A family in the Kababiyan camp for Afghan refugees in Peshawar, Pakistan.
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UN warns of humanitarian crisis as 7,400 cross Afghan border each day

13 October 2016
Every day, some 7,400 Afghan returnees cross the border from Pakistan to Afghanistan, prompting the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to warn of an escalating humanitarian crisis.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (seated left), with the European Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development Neven Mimica (centre) and Chief Executive of Afghanistan Abdullah Abdullah at the Brussels Conference on Afghanistan.
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‘Keep Afghanistan on the path towards stability,’ Ban tells Brussels Conference

5 October 2016
Addressing a conference aimed at charting a way forward for conflict-ravaged Afghanistan, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged the international community to sustain its commitment to support the country and its people, while stressing the importance of holding both donors and the Afghan Government accountable for aid effectiveness.