News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

8 June 2011 - The Ministry of Women’s Affairs with support for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) today opened libraries specifically for women in Paktya, Khost and Ghazni provinces. “Our traditional…

May 2011 was the deadliest month for Afghan civilians since at least 2007, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said today. UNAMA documented 368 conflict-related civilian deaths in May and 593 civilian…

11 June 2011 – Afghan civilians suffered their worst month of violence in recent years as the insurgent summer attacks intensified, making May the deadliest month on its records the United Nations Assistance Mission in…

12 June 2011 – On today’s World Day Against Child Labour, a newly released report by the UN International Labour Organization (ILO) has found that more than half of the world’s estimated 215 million child labourers are…

13 June 2011 - September 21, 2011, marks the 30th anniversary of the International Day of Peace. As we begin today a 100-day countdown to the observance, we pay tribute to the many civil society activists who lent the…

KABUL - The number of countries collecting all their blood supplies from voluntary unpaid donors increased by more than 50 per cent between 2002 and 2008, according to new global data from the World Health Organization (WHO)…

The people who live in the arid lands, which occupy more than 40 per cent of our planet, are among the world’s poorest and most vulnerable to hunger. Frequently, they depend on land that is degraded and where productivity has…

More civilians were killed in Afghanistan in May than in any other month since 2007, raising fears of a further escalation during the summer with serious humanitarian implications, according to Georgette Gagnon, the human…

NEWYORK - The Security Council today voted unanimously to split sanctions it has imposed on Al-Qaida and those against the Taliban, creating two lists of individuals and organizations so that they can be treated separately…

The United Nations is set to unveil a report highlighting the vital work of midwives in ensuring that millions of women and newborn children do not die needlessly at a time when many countries still lack enough skilled staff…

NEWYORK - This year marks the 60th anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention. It is also 60 years since UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, was established. In that time the work of helping the world’s refugees and other forcibly…

With 2.6 billion people still without access to a toilet or latrine, sanitation is one of the Millennium Development Goal targets that is lagging farthest behind. To accelerate action on expanding improved sanitation, build…