News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

KABUL - Afghanistan. In response to the Punjab Institute of Cardiology alleged medicine contamination, the Ministry of Public Health and the World Health Organization (WHO) want to reassure the Afghan public that this incident is limited to a batch only distributed at the institute. According to WHO…

KABUL - First of all let me greet you all and welcome you all here today. And we are very much honoured by your presence and by your interest.

KABUL - The head of the United Nations entity mandated to promote gender equality today said that her priority this year is to enhance the economic empowerment and political participation of women and called for the support of the international community and the entire UN system to ensure success…

KABUL - A majority of workers in Afghanistan’s brick kilns are child bonded labourers under the age of 14, according to a new survey commissioned by the International Labour Organization (ILO). The ILO Representative for Afghanistan, Herve Berger; the acting Deputy Minister for Labour and Social…

KABUL - The United Nations envoy for children and armed conflict today called for universal ratification of a treaty protocol that outlaws the use of minors to fight wars and encourages States to set 18 years as the minimum age for recruitment. UN News Centre “So far, almost three fourths of the…

KABUL - The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is boosting its technical support to help rebuild Afghanistan’s dilapidated traditional irrigation systems, which have been neglected for decades owing to war and migration away from rural areas. UN News Centre The lack of efficient…

NEW YORK - Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, The drug trade degrades individuals and destabilizes nations. It is a threat to the well-being and development of Afghanistan and its neighbours. Afghanistan suffers from one of the highest rates of opiate consumption and drug addiction in the world…

KABUL - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called for concerted efforts to help Afghanistan extricate itself from the scourge of drug production, use and trafficking, noting that the country’s stability remains at stake with an estimated 15 per cent of its income accruing from trade in illicit…

KABUL - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has partnered with religious institutions to provide solar panels that will power much-needed electricity to schools as well as promote the use of renewable energy. The first solar panels were donated to the Ebrahim Hamim Madrasa…

NEW YORK - Over the past year, the winds of change have swept across the globe. Citizens by the millions have voiced their discontent around similar themes: inequality, corruption, repression and the absence of decent work. At the heart of this mass mobilization lies a call for social justice…

BAMYAN - This week 285 Mullahs from throughout Bamyan province completed a UN-supported workshop on gender equality. The week-long programme was a joint endeavor by the Gender Empowerment Programme of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the provincial Department of Religious Affairs…

KABUL - Last week saw the completion of a legal training on investigating and documenting abuses of detainee rights. The event was held in Kunduz and was a collaboration between UNAMA, EUPOL, and the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission. In total 17 law enforcement authorities attended…