News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

NEW YORK - Badam Bagh prison is an improvement for Krishma and her young daughter. Just two years ago, they lived in the female section of Pol-e-Charkhi, the notorious Afghan jail. With no special provisions for mothers with children, Krishma and her baby lived in terrible conditions not far from…

21 February 2010 - United Nations agencies are working with the local government of Helmand to provide emergency humanitarian assistance to internally displaced persons (IDPs) as the influx of people from Marjah district continues into Lashkargah and into other parts of the province. Some 1,644 IDP…

NEW YORK - A new report by UNESCO, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, examines how dangerous it has become for many young people to get an education. Bernard O'Malley, the author of the report, says the types of attacks include gunning down of groups of school children in…

22 February 2010 - The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is running a poultry project for 2,000 families in Kunduz and Takhar provinces. The project will cover 2,000 more beneficiary families in Kunduz and Baghlan provinces. A 12-day-training session was recently held for 22…

22 February 2010 - I am deeply saddened at the reports of the terrible loss of civilian life on Sunday in southern Afghanistan. According to government figures, at least 27 civilians, including women and children, were killed and numerous others wounded during aerial operations of the international…

KABUL - A top United Nations official in Afghanistan has repeated the world body’s call for all parties to the conflict to avoid civilian casualties, after an international military operation on Sunday reportedly killed at least 27 people, including women and children, in the southern province of…

23 February 2010 - The largest military offensive since 2002 is now underway in the Helmand province in Afghanistan. At the same time, a consensus is emerging that the conflict in this country can ultimately not be solved by military means. I have consistently advocated the need to prepare the…

23 February 2010 - Former mujahideen commanders continue to lay down their arms in the hope to get more development in their area. Seven former commanders handed over their weapons to the provincial authorities in Bamyan province in return to get more development projects in their district. The…

24 February 2010 - The outgoing United Nations envoy to Afghanistan has warned that – on its own – the massive United States-led military push in Taliban strongholds in southern Helmand province will not bring peace and stability to the country. UN News Centre report Furthermore, offering financial…

KABUL - Today, Kabul’s Babur Gardens was host to 240 children learning how to avoid the dangers posed by landmines and other explosive remnants of war at an event organized by the Mine Action Coordination Centre of Afghanistan (MACCA). The teaching methods for the mine-risk education messages…

KABUL - The protection of children must be at the center of the reconciliation agenda of the Government of Afghanistan, as endorsed by the international community, said the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Radhika Coomaraswamy upon concluding her seven…

KABUL - Transcript of press conference in Kabul by Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Radhika Coomaraswamy; Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan Robert Watkins; and UNICEF Representative to Afghanistan Catherine Mbengue…