News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

KABUL - Two weeks after he reinstated the United Nations Mazar-i-Sharif operations centre, the top United Nations official in Afghanistan today reiterated the Organization’s commitment to safety and paid homage to colleagues…

19 August 2011 - The United Nation's Organization for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) today launched a music video produced specifically for World Humanitarian Day, "If I Could Change." Check out the video…

There is never a year without humanitarian crises. And wherever there are people in need, there are people who help them – men and women coming together to ease suffering and bring hope. From Japan to Sudan, from Pakistan to…

21 August 2011 - Every year, natural and man-made disasters cause immense suffering for millions of people – often the world’s poorest, most marginalized and vulnerable individuals. Humanitarian aid workers strive to provide…

KABUL - The United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for Afghanistan, Staffan de Mistura, welcomes the decision of the Independent Election Commission (IEC) announced on Sunday 21 August regarding…

KABUL - The United Nations today stressed the need for Afghan lawmakers get down to business now that the country’s electoral authorities have finalized the results of last year’s parliamentary elections. UN News Centre On…

24 August 2011 - Baskul Nasrati is one of 23 girls spending two years in Kabul to train as a midwife before returning to her home village in the Central Highlands, part of a national programme supported by the United Nations…

KABUL - Afghanistan’s Ministry of Public Health (MoPH), with the support of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has launched intensified efforts to wipe out polio from the…

KANDAHAR - Hundreds of widows at the Kandahar Women Affairs Department (DoWA) recited the Holy Quran and prayed together for peace at an event jointly organized by the United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA)…

BAMYAN - The UNAMA-supported Bamyan Peace Day Football Tournament is now underway at the Mazari Square in downtown Bamyan city, kicking off nearly a month of games meant to promote ideals of peace, solidarity and cooperation…

Hundreds of delegates from governments and civil society will gather at United Nations in New York tomorrow to discuss ways to improve the lives and well-being of people with disabilities by addressing some of the challenges…

Thousands of Afghan girls and women learning to read, write and add are contributing to their country’s peace efforts, as the world marks this year’s Literacy Day by focusing on the link between literacy and peace. Sabria, 18…