Press Conference of Implementation of the Elimination of Violence against Women (EVAW) law in Afghanistan has a long way to go: 23 November 2011

Implementation of the Elimination of Violence against Women (EVAW) law in Afghanistan has a long way to go, the United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said in a report released today. Judicial and law enforcement officials have sporadically implemented the two-year-old law supporting the equality and rights of Afghan women, and the Government has not yet succeeded in applying the law to the vast majority of cases of violence against women.

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The Loya Jirga.

The Loya Jirga, a key gathering of government officials and elders to discuss peace efforts in Afghanistan, opens today in Kabul.

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UNHCR Press Conference: 10 November 2011.

Antonio Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, addresses a press conference concerning his visit to the southern city of Kandahar to pay his respects to the three UNHCR staff members killed in last weeks attack.

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Staffan de Mistura, SRSG for UNAMA, Jean-Luc Lemahieu, UNODC Country Office Representative, Zarar Ahmad Moqbel Osmani, Minister of Counter-Narcotics, and General Baz Mohammad Ahmadi, Deputy Minister of Counter-Narcotics for MOI. address a press conference concerning the release of a UN report on poppy cultivation and opium production in Afghanistan, in 2011. 1

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Closing Awards Ceremony of the First Human Rights Film Festival and the art of Afghan filmmaking on 07 October 2011, at the French Institute for Afghanistan.1

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Photo by Ferdaws Waezi.
Photo by Ferdaws Waezi.

The first autumn human rights film festival in Kabul Afghanistan, October, 01 2011.

Two musicians from Badakhshan perform during the opening ceremony of the First Autumn Human Rights Film Festival taking place in Kabul from the 2nd of October until the 7th of the month.

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Fardin Waezi photo exhibits at the British Museum and Tate Modern display in London.

UNAMA is proud to announce that the work of Fardin Waezi, one of our staff photographers, will be on display in London.

Waezi's photographs are components of two other exhibitions, Afghanistan: Crossroads of the Ancient World at the British Museum, and Burke + Norfolk: Photographs from the war in Afghanistan at theTate Modern. In total, 17 photos taken by Waezi will be exhibited. Among the shots are images of reconstruction in Kabul ten years after the fall of the Taliban regime. But it's diversity of photos of daily life that give the show it's depth and power. Among them are Waezi's photos of public celebrations of New Year, luminous images of the city's skyline and views women taking charge of their futures.

"The point of this exhibition is to show to the world a message that is the opposite of the one people often see in the media. Beyond the war and explosions there is life and culture and history," said Waezi.

The exhibit runs from May 8 to June 8, 2011.

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