News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

NEW YORK - On this day, I salute the women of the Middle East and North Africa, along with women all over the world who are taking great risks to stand up and fight for dignity, justice and human rights for themselves and for their compatriots. In Egypt and Tunisia, women were on Twitter, on…

8 March 2011 - UNAMA's Human Rights Unit today starts rolling out the Dari and Pashto versions of the Harmful Traditional Practices and Implementation of the Law on Elimination of Violence against Women in Afghanistan Report. The documents are available online.

8 March 2011 - A hundred years ago today, women across the world took an historic step on the long road to equality. The first ever International Women’s Day was called to draw attention to the unacceptable and often dangerous working conditions that so many women faced worldwide. Although the…

8 March 2011 - This year, we mark a century of women as agents of change to improve their lives, communities and health. Over the past 100 years, many advances have improved the health of women and girls. Examples include: social and legal reforms regarding the minimum age of marriage and sexual…

KABUL - Women’s achievements will not be sidelined during ongoing peace efforts, President Hamid Karzai today said as United Nations senior officials in Afghanistan marked International Women’s Day by advocating for the implementation of the Law on Elimination of Violence against Women and calling…

KABUL - Parties to the armed conflict in Afghanistan should escalate their efforts to protect Afghan civilians in 2011, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission said today on releasing their 2010 Annual Report on the…

KABUL - Staffan de Mistura, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan; Ivan Simonovic, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights; Georgette Gagnon, Director of UNAMA Human Rights; and Sima Samar, Chairperson of Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC), today…

8 March 2011 – Hundreds of women carrying banners with “We Want Justice” written in Dari today urged provincial officials to make life better for women in Dai Kundi, where the United Nations body leading the global effort to empower women is due to open its first provincial office later this month…

10 March 2011 - Hundreds of local residents and provincial officials gathered this week at the foot of the cliff-side caverns that once housed two giant Buddha statues to mark ten years since the destruction of Afghanistan’s top cultural icons and urged their restoration. The rehabilitation of the…

KABUL - Ordinary Afghans continue to bear the brunt of the ongoing conflict in the country, says a United Nations report released today that points to a 15 per cent rise in the death toll last year and urges greater efforts by all parties to protect civilians. UN News Centre story There were 2,777…

10 March 2011 - The people of Afghanistan’s Central Highlands found a novel way to call for better government services this week, at the same time as recognizing the tireless work of their donkeys in day-to-day tasks. Around 50 people from remote villages travelled to the regional capital of Bamyan…