News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

KABUL - Soaring opium prices may induce more farmers to grow opium, warned the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in its full 2010 Afghanistan Opium Survey released today. The high prices are based on…

8 January 2011 - The chair of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission has been awarded the 2010 Tipperary International Peace Award for her contribution to freedom and democracy in Afghanistan. The Tipperary Peace…

KABUL - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) expresses its deep concern and surprise at the recent call to delay the inauguration of the National Assembly. It further recalls the position of members of…

21 January 2011 (UN News Centre) –The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) today voiced “deep concern and surprise” at the recent call to delay the inauguration of the National Assembly that was elected in…

KABUL - Pro-government militias in parts of Afghanistan are believed to be recruiting underage boys and sometimes sexually abusing them in an environment of criminal impunity, local people and human rights organizations say…

23 January 2011 - The Afghan Government Media Information Centre (GMIC) celebrated its two year anniversary last week with a pledge to continue involving Afghan youth in its work and discussions about press freedom and access…

25 January 2011 - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) welcomes the understanding reached in the recent exchanges between the Office of the President of Afghanistan and the Afghan Parliament agreeing…

KABUL - Afghanistan’s Lower House of Parliament, the Wolesi Jirga, convened today as its 249 members were sworn in by President Hamid Karzai. This is the country’s second Parliament to be inaugurated since 2001. There are 69…

26 January 2011 - The Secretary-General welcomes the inauguration earlier today of the Wolesi Jirga, the Lower House of the Afghan Parliament, presided over by President Hamid Karzai. Dari- Pashto The inauguration marks the…

28 January 2011 - An attack today at a popular city centre supermarket killed a number of civilians, including reportedly a child. Afghan police continue to investigate the attack, which occurred around 2.30 in the afternoon…

28 January 2011 - Landmines and explosive remnants of war continue to put thousands of communities in Afghanistan at risk of death or injury, but the problem can be solved with adequate funding of the de-mining effort, a…

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