News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

8 March 2010 - International Women's Day message from UNIFEM Excecuitve Director: "Human security and humanitarian assistance, like human development, requires greater numbers of women at all decision-making tables." Full Statement

8 March 2010 - On International Women’s Day, UNAMA brings you stories of women who have not just beaten the odds, but triumphed and are, now, making a difference for their gender across the country. Meet Mahgul Yamam, a 56-year-old successful lawyer and a rights activist. After graduating from Kabul…

8 March 2010 - To mark International Women's Day in Afghanistan, UNAMA presents a special online photo exhibition on women in the county. Click to view photo exhibition

8 March 2010 - On the occasion of International Women’s Day, Kunduz’s Female Traders Association, with financial support of German NGO, GTZ, held a three-day women’s handicraft exhibition. Handicrafts made by women from four provinces, namely: Kunduz, Badakhshan, Takhar and Balkh were exhibited…

8 March 2010 - One belief that the Western world often held about Asia and the East was that it was a land of enormous luxury and wealth. One Western poet from the 19th century, James Elroy Flecker, summed up this view by describing the way eastwards as “The Golden Road.” Although the West might not…

8 March 2010 - A tremendous improvement in women’s social, economic and political life has been noted in Paktya over the past ten years. This was learned by the South-East Region offices of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan which recently met with a women’s non-government…

8 March 2010 - On International Women’s Day in Bamyan, women and men gathered to pray for peace in Afghanistan and to discuss the role of women and their place in the country during the ongoing peace and reconciliation efforts. A group of women’s rights activists in Bamyan said they feared…

9 March 2010 - It wasn’t just the Muslims of Jalalabad who celebrated the holy festival of Eid with pomp and jubilation in the last week of November 2009. In downtown Jalalabad, minority Hindu-Sikhs were also euphoric about the festival of their Muslim neighbours. They reached their Muslim brothers’…

9 March 2010 - Barely a month into its existence, a regional journalism training hub in Jalalabad has already trained 13 broadcast journalists from four provinces of eastern Afghanistan as of last week. The training hub, one of just two in the country, is run by a local media development…

9 March 2010 - UNESCO will receive a grant of US$ 19.5 million from the Government of Japan for the 2nd phase of the Enhancement of Literacy in Afghanistan (ELA 2) programme. English - Dari - Pashto

10 March 2010 - As a part of UNAMA's campaign to spread awareness about Afghanistan's rich past, Aditya Mehta spoke to UNESCO Director Shigeru Aoyagi about the agency's concerns and plans for the future. The United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has been working in…

10 March 2010 - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has announced the appointment of Martin Kobler of Germany as his Deputy Special Representative (Political) for Afghanistan, replacing Peter Galbraith of the United States. The new Deputy Special Representative will be responsible for…