News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

BAMYAN - A group of schoolchildren in Bamyan city joined community elders and United Nations staff over the weekend for an annual hike to the top of the Kushkaq Mountains. Organized by the United Nations Environment Programme ( UNEP), this year’s Peace Trek is the third annual trek in this central…

KABUL - The first Autumn Human Rights Film Festival opens today in Kabul with an extraordinary selection of documentaries, feature, short and animation films from all over the world that will inform, spark debate, amaze, provoke, delight, disturb and inspire. Print English For six days in October…

2 October 2011 - Hundreds of females students in Kandahar urged an end to violence at an event at the Afghan-Canadian Community Centre ( ACCC) organized to mark the International Day of Peace. “If there is peace in our country, our books, teachers, students and everything will be safe. We will be…

FARYAB - The Faryab wheelchair basketball players, the reigning national champions in Afghanistan, demonstrated the team’s skills on the court at the Maimana Public Hospital in a friendly match to mark Peace Day. The game, held at the IAM Orthopedic Workshop and Physiotherapy Center, was organized…

This year, World Habitat Day falls during the month when demographers predict our planet’s seven billionth inhabitant will be born. The future that this child and its generation will inherit depends to a great degree on how we handle the competing pressures of growing population growth, urbanization…

KABUL - Representatives from the international community met with Afghan Government officials on 27 September and reaffirmed their commitment to the Afghan peace process, following the assassination of Professor Burhanuddin Rabbani, former President of Afghanistan and Chairman of the High Peace…

NEWYORK - The head of the United Nations agency that defends press freedom today condemned the killing of an Iranian journalist in an attack in neighbouring Afghanistan, and called for better safety for journalists working in the troubled Asian country. UN News Centre Farhad Taqaddosi, a cameraman…

1 October 2011 - The Humanitarian Country Team in Afghanistan has called for US$142 million to help the Government provide life-saving assistance to an estimated 3 million people affected by drought in 14 provinces in the north, north east and west of the country. A launch event held today in Kabul…

5 October 2011 - More than 30 Afghanistan National Army (ANA) Religious and Cultural Affairs (RCA) Officers and the United Nations experts convened on 27 September 2011 in the Afghanistan Peace and Reintegration Programme (APRP) meeting at the Gambiri military camp in Laghman province. The report on…

KABUL - Hundreds of Afghan youth from different parts of the country are showcasing their new communication skills and voicing concerns about critical social and national issues. The festival, which started on Sunday, is being held at various locations in Kabul, Jalalabad, Kandahar, Heart and Mazar…

KABUL - H.E. Dr. Nadera Hayat Burhani, Deputy Minister of Public Health, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Gerald Gunther Deputy Representative UNFPA and Dr Ashfaq Ahmed, Officer in Charge of WHO, Primary Healthcare Program Unit 5 October 2011 – Commemorating World Mental Health Day at the Ministry…

KABUL - UNAMA today released a report that documents the torture and mistreatment of detainees in a number of detention facilities of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) and Afghan National Police (ANP) across the country. UNAMA is committed to assisting the Afghan Government and people…