News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

7 December 2011 – Senior officials from Afghanistan and neighbouring countries today launched a United Nations plan to strengthen counter-narcotics efforts and boost regional stability. UN News Centre The launch of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime ( UNODC) 2011- 2014 Regional Programme follows…

KABUL - The 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence is an international campaign that runs from 25 November, International Day of Elimination of Violence against Women, through 10 December, International Human Rights Day. This year’s theme is “From Peace in the Home to Peace in the World”…

KABUL - The security situation in Afghanistan remains tense following two bomb blasts on Tuesday in which reportedly 60 people were killed. Over 160 people were injured, some of whom have lost limbs. Many of them will end up at the Kabul Orthopedic Organization, a rehabilitation centre which helps…

KABUL - The 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence is an international campaign that runs from 25 November, International Day of Elimination of Violence against Women, through 10 December, International Human Rights Day. This year’s theme is “From Peace in the Home to Peace in the World”…

NEW YORK - Corruption afflicts all countries, undermining social progress and breeding inequality and injustice. When desperately needed development funds are stolen by corrupt individuals and institutions, poor and vulnerable people are robbed of the education, health care and other essential…

NEW YORK - Human rights belong to every one of us without exception. But unless we know them, unless we demand they be respected, and unless we defend our right -- and the right of others -- to exercise them, they will be just words in a decades-old document. That is why, on Human Rights Day, we do…

KANDAHAR - Family and social pressures to not allow girls to study, forced marriage and violence against women are the themes of a play written and performed by five high-school girls in the southern Afghan province of Nimroz with support from the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan…

KABUL - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) today called on Afghan leaders to make greater use of the legal system to fight corruption during a national event marking Anti-Corruption Day. Noting that laws, institutions and structures are already in place in Afghanistan…

KABUL - Over 80 representatives from Judiciary, Attorney General’s Office, Ministry of Interior, Prosecutors, human rights and civil society organizations started off discussions in Kabul on forced and underage marriages in Afghanistan. Purpose of this 3-day seminar for legal practitioners organized…

NEW YORK - The report provides an update on the activities of the United Nations in Afghanistan, including significant humanitarian, development and human rights efforts, since my previous report issued on 21 September 2011 (A/66/369-S/2011/590). The report also provides a summary of key political…

KABUL - Launched a new campaign on National Community Health Workers Day at the Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Suraya Dalil, Acting Minister of Public Health (MoPH) of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, with WHO stressed how the over 22,000 community health workers in Afghanistan are able to…

KABUL - Despite provisions in the Afghan constitution for protection of women’s rights and the law on the Elimination of Violence against Women (EVAW), and Afghan civil laws, 54 percent of women in Afghanistan are affected by forced and underage marriage, according to Afghan legal practitioners…