News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

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, stories about and by humanitarian workers and how you can get involved at the…

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 the Horn of Africa, aid workers help people who have lost their homes…

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 protection and life-saving assistance to these people, regardless of where…

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 the membership of the Wolesi Jirga. With this decision a long…

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 Sunday the Independent Election Commission (IEC) reportedly announced that…

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 to knock Afghanistan from the top of the deadliest places to give birth.…

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 country by the end of 2012. To this end it is focusing particularly on 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) to mark Ramadan and as part of the International Day of Peace campaign. “I…

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. Co-organized with the Bamyan Olympic Sub-Directorate, the Bamyan Football…

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 they face, including unemployment. UN News Centre The three-day Fourth…

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, is a full-time student in the 12th grade who spends two hours nearly…

This year, International Literacy Day places a special focus on the essential relationship between literacy and peace. Lasting peace is founded on respect for human rights and social justice. Literacy, the foundation of all education and lifelong learning, is one of these rights. Literacy is a…