A/HRC/4/98* page 7 honour killings are acceptable and that perpetrators should not be punished. In late 2006, a pregnant woman and a young man suspected of adultery were publicly executed during Eid following the issuance of a death fatwa by a local jirga (council) in Faryab Province. To date, the authorities have taken two individuals into custody but the perpetrators have not yet been brought to justice. 22. A Family Response Unit was established in Kabul in 2005 to allow women complaining of domestic violence and other criminal issues easy access to the police. A similar unit also exists in Herat and three were opened in Mazar-I-Sharif in 2006. The Kabul unit is staffed by female police officers who serve as the first contact for women facing violence and other crimes. Mediation between couples and families is offered and, in some instances, cases are referred for criminal investigation. The south, south-east and east remain in dire need of similar mechanisms. 23. The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) established a database of cases and information relating to violence against women gathered from provincial offices of MoWA, AIHRC, NGOs and United Nations agencies. The database will be transferred to MoWA in due course. UNIFEM issued a report in 2006 based on 1,327 collected and analysed cases of violence against women countrywide from 2003 to 2005 which had previously been collected by 17 organizations. AIHRC published a report in September 2006 on the situation of women and has conducted a number of seminars on violence against women for local communities, provincial and district authorities, women’s organizations and clerics. MoWA has launched a long-term campaign on combating violence against women; the Inter-Ministerial Commission on the Elimination of Violence against Women is working on a protocol on the eradication of forced and child marriages; and a parliamentary commission was established on women, gender, civil society and human rights. A “National Action Plan for the Women of Afghanistan” is expected to be passed and released by Parliament in 2007. A number of United Nations organizations have been active in providing training and awareness-raising activities on violence against women, including UNAMA Human Rights Officers, UNIFEM and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). IV. ARMED CONFLICT AND VIOLENCE 24. Violence linked with armed conflict was the deadliest in 2006 since the fall of the Taliban regime in late 2001. Although centred in the four southern provinces, it occurs over large areas from Kunar in the east to Farah in the west. Parts of the southern central highlands, notably Dai Kundi and Ghor, are also becoming destabilized and prone to violence. 25. Insurgent-related attacks increased from fewer than 300 a month at the end of March 2006 to over 600 by end September 2006. (In 2005, the average number of such attacks was an estimated 130 per month.) Suicide attacks have risen dramatically - in 2005, there were 17 such attacks; in 2006, 123 incidents were recorded by the United Nations, killing 237 civilians and injuring 624. In addition, 16 international military personnel and 52 Afghan soldiers and police were killed by suicide bombing attacks. During 2006, an estimated 4,000 people were killed, of whom at least one third were civilians.