News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

8 December 2010 - The High Peace Council, at its first public conference in Kandahar, said that peace and reconciliation is the Afghan Government’s top agenda. The conference was attended by Chairman Professor Burhanuddin…

KABUL - Harmful traditional practices that violate the human rights of women and girls are pervasive in Afghanistan, occurring in varying degrees in all communities throughout the country, the United Nations Assistance…

Human rights are the foundation of freedom, peace, development and justice -- and the heart of the work of the United Nations around the world. Dari - Pashto version Laws to protect and promote human rights are indispensable…

12 December 2010 - On Saturday 11 December, on the outskirts of Kabul, Minister of Education, Farooq Wardak and Japan’s Ambassador to Afghanistan, Shigeyuki Hiroki, inaugurated the newly-constructed Mohamed Mussa Shafiq high…

KHOST- Government officials in Khost urged ulemas in the province to explain and educate the public in women’s rights, through the teachings and principles of Islam. This call by the director of women’s affairs took place at…

14 December 2010 - The United Nations (UN) refugee agency, UNHCR, has built 200,000 houses across Afghanistan for returning refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) since 2002. This longstanding reintegration…

KABUL - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Staffan de Mistura learned with profound sadness of the sudden and untimely death of Richard Holbrooke. Ambassador Holbrooke has been a friend of the United Nations…

KHOST - As many as 1,500 development projects, benefiting more than 20,000 families, have been executed under the National Solidarity Programme (NSP) of the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) in Khost…

NEW YORK - There is an increasing sense that conditions for reconciliation in Afghanistan are becoming more favourable and that there may soon be a real opportunity for a political dialogue leading to a settlement, Secretary…

NEW YORK - The members of the Security Council heard a briefing today by the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Afghanistan, Staffan de Mistura, received an assessment of the situation in Afghanistan…

In the face of increased successes by international forces and the national army in Afghanistan, the Taliban may attempt spectacular attacks in the coming weeks, the top United Nations envoy in the country warned today. “In…