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Participants at civil society-led Afghan Peoples Dialogue for Peace initiative. Kabul, 15 January 2015. File
UNAMA/Fardin Waezi

Afghan women want peace “but not at any cost”

19 November 2015
General News

Women in Afghanistan want peace “but not at any cost” according to a UN human rights and gender expert in the country.

The central Asian nation continues to recover from decades of instability.

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One of the brides with one of their daughters. Photo courtesy of Daniela Mercury

UN Gender Focus: LGBTI equality, HIV prevention in Zimbabwe and women in Afghanistan

19 November 2015
UN Gender Focus

Brazilian celebrity same-sex wedding video premiered at UN

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Girls play in the schoolyard at Santo Niño Elementary School in the town of Tanauan, Philippines.
UNICEF/Giacomo Pirozzi

Community spirit behind recovery of Filipino town hard hit by typhoon

12 November 2015
General News

After Typhoon Haiyan slammed the Philippines two years ago this month, people in the town of Tanauan came together with “an innate desire to be of service.”

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Kerstin Jeska-Thorwart.
Rotary International/Monika Lozinska

Sri Lankan maternity hospital reborn after 2004 tsunami

11 November 2015
General News

More than 160,000 Sri Lankan children born since the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami can thank a German lawyer for their safe start in life.

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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
UN Photo/Evan Schneider (file)

Ban welcomes restart of key trilateral meeting between Republic of Korea, Japan, China

2 November 2015
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed the Summit Meeting held between the Republic of Korea, Japan and China on 1 November in Seoul, and lauded the leaders for resuming the trilateral meetings.