News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

8 September 2010 - This year’s observance of International Literacy Day highlights the central role of literacy in the empowerment of women. Literacy transforms the lives of women, their families, communities and societies…

8 September 2010 - On behalf of the United Nations and the whole international community present in Afghanistan, I would like to express in the strongest possible terms our concern and indeed outrage at the announcement by a…

8 September 2010 - The top United Nations envoy to Afghanistan today voiced his outrage over the threat by a religious group in the United States to burn copies of the Koran, warning that it could endanger the lives of those…

9 September 2010 - HIV/AIDS is the focus of a door-to-door campaign carried out by young people in the south-eastern province of Nangarhar. Youth groups have recently conducted nearly 400 awareness-raising sessions across six…

9 September 2010 - SRSG Staffan de Mistura appeared on the BBC's programme, The Hub, on Wednesday to call on the religious group to not go ahead with its threat to burn copies of the Quran. GOWING: The US Secretary of State…

9 September 2010 - On behalf of the United Nations family in Afghanistan I share my heartfelt greetings to the Afghan people in the celebration of the religious festival of Eid-ul-Fitr. Dari and Pashto Throughout the month of…

KABUL - Dr F A Manawi, Chief of the Independent Election Commission (IEC) and UN special envoy Staffan de Mistura held a press conference at the IEC headquarters in Kabul today, where they tested the indelible ink to be used…

KABUL - Afghanistan’s upcoming parliamentary polls will be “far from” perfect, but they should be much less marred by fraud than last year’s presidential elections, the top United Nations envoy to the country said today. Due…

9 September 2010 - General Assembly President Ali Treki has added his voice to United Nations concern about the threat by a Christian clergyman in the United States to burn copies of the Koran. Dr. Treki “condemns such calls…

15 September - "This election is about giving honest people the magic experience of voting to have a say in the governance of their country," Judge Johann Kriegler of Afghanistan's Electoral Complaints Commission told…

15 September 2010 - Today the Afghanistan Independent Election Commission (IEC) announced the end of the campaign period for the 18 September 2010 Wolesi Jirga (Lower House) election in Afghanistan. “The campaign period for…