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Reconciliation 12
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Security situation 157
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Women's rights 72
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Politics and governance in Afghanistan: The case of Kandahar June 2015 \| Publisher: Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) \| Document type: Country Reports
Briefing on the situation of underage recruitment and use of children by armed forces and insurgent groups in Afghanistan to the UN Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict June 2015 \| Publisher: Child Soldiers International \| Document type: Country Reports
Report of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict in Afghanistan 15 May 2015 \| Publisher: UN Security Council \| Document type: Country Reports
Women's Asylum News: Issue No. 130, April/May 2015 May 2015 \| Publisher: Asylum Aid \| Document type: Country Reports
Mapping village variability in Afghanistan: The use of cluster analysis to construct village typologies May 2015 \| Publisher: Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) \| Document type: Country Reports
Understanding the Cultural Fabric: The Missing Piece in China's outreach to bring peace to Afghanistan 23 April 2015 \| Publisher: United Kingdom: Foreign and Commonwealth Office \| Document type: Country Reports
Afghanistan Opium Survey 2014 - Socio-economic analysis 20 April 2015 \| Publisher: UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) \| Document type: Country Reports
The Researcher, April 2015 April 2015 \| Publisher: Ireland: Refugee Documentation Centre \| Document type: Country Reports
Death sentences and executions in 2014 31 March 2015 \| Publisher: Amnesty International \| Document type: Country Reports
Listening to Women and Girls Displaced to Urban Afghanistan 26 March 2015 \| Publisher: Norwegian Refugee Council/Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (NRC/IDMC) \| Document type: Country Reports

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