News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

KABUL - Statement by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay. The concept of non-discrimination lies at the heart of human rights. For this reason, it has been designated the official theme of this Human Rights…

KABUL - For decades, the only link between Sar-i-Pul and Sosma Qala, where more than 300 returnees from Iran are about to recover their homelands, has been a dusty bumpy road. Since the Government of Afghanistan, supported by…

10 December 2009 - UNESCO and the Government of Italy signed a US$ 1 million agreement to develop the capacity of Educational Radio and Television of Afghanistan. English - Dari Following the agreement signed between Italian…

10 December 2009 - Among many events across Afghanistan on Human Rights Day, more than three hundred people gathered in the eastern Laghman province to mark the day. Officials, members of civil society groups, religious…

11 December 2009 – It is a clear winter day in Mazar-i-Sharif. The first snows of December have covered the nearby mountains white, on which a clear sky reflects its blue colour. On this cold Friday, the city sounds joyful…

KABUL - When Kai Eide started this job he had a two-year horizon - as had his predecessors. Kai Eide has asked the United Nations Secretary-General to start the process to identify his successor. This is not a question of…

KABUL - Afghanistan is the first country ever to use bivalent oral polio vaccine during the Sub National Immunization Campaign on 15-17 December 2009. UNICEF Press Release The campaign targets a total of 2.8 million Children…

KABUL - The Government of the Italian Republic is to provide EUR 1.8 million to support the Government of Afghanistan’s disaster management efforts in western Afghanistan, increasing the country’s capacity to cope with…

KABUL - The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) will enter its fourth decade of engagement with the refugee crisis in Afghanistan this month. Press Conference Transcript The Soviet occupation of the country…

KABUL - The United Nations refugee agency is slated to build a further 10,000 homes in Afghanistan next year in a bid to ease the return of Afghans who have fled decades of violence in the war-wracked nation and encourage…

KABUL - A new vaccine against polio will be used for the first time, today, in Afghanistan, as a campaign to immunize some 3 million children gets underway. The bivalent oral vaccine, known as bOPV, can protect children…