News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

KABUL - Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Valerie Amos, is calling on donor states to continue supporting the people of Afghanistan affected by the conflict and natural disasters. Valerie Amos, who is also the UN's Emergency Relief Coordinator, is winding up her first trip to…

KABUL - United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) is seriously concerned that the protection needs of civilians, especially children and their right to education are being violated through reported attacks by anti-Government elements targeting schools and education officials over the…

KABUL - Concerns over the credibility of the electoral process and transfer of power in the presidential elections of 2014 brought together the two largest political opposition of Afghanistan. The National Front of Afghanistan (NFA) and the National Coalition of Afghanistan (NCA) issued a joint…

NEW YORK - While the United Nations and its partners would continue to provide immediate humanitarian relief to Afghanistan, aid alone was not enough to deal with the conflict-torn nation’s myriad challenges, the United Nations humanitarian chief said today during a Headquarters news conference. “It…

KABUL - The United Nations-supported film project “Kabul, I love you” premiered today at the French Institute in Kabul at an event that included the UN Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General Michael Keating; the Acting Minister of Information and Culture, Timur Shah Ishaqzai; and…

KABUL - The number of women dying of pregnancy and childbirth related complications has almost halved in 20 years, according to new estimates released today by the United Nations, which stressed that greater progress is still needed in significantly reducing maternal deaths. UN News Centre The…

KABUL - The number of women dying of pregnancy and childbirth related complications has almost halved in 20 years, according to new estimates released today by the United Nations, which stressed that greater progress is still needed in significantly reducing maternal deaths. UN News Centre The…

NANGARHAR - A United Nations-supported stage drama show that seeks to raise awareness against underage marriage attracted hundreds of Afghan men, women and elderly in the country’s eastern Laghman province last week. The provincial Department of Women’s Affairs (DoWA) organized the drama show…

CHICAGO - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon assured Afghan President Hamid Karzai yesterday that the United Nations stands ready to support to the Afghan authorities to produce “credible and democratic elections”. According to Martin Nesirky, the spokesperson of the Secretary-General, the UN chief…

HELMAND - Message of peace resonated in an annual poetry event held in the southern Helmand province of Afghanistan on Thursday last week. Over 500 poets, writers and intellectuals from about over a dozen provinces of Afghanistan and some of them also from across the border in Pakistani cities of…

KABUL - Afghan civil society organizations have started preparations to develop strong messages through an inclusive and participatory mechanism for the International Conference on Afghanistan to be held in Tokyo on 8 July 2012. A meeting of the civil society organizations in Kabul organized…

BAMAYN - The Independent Election Commission (IEC) travelled to Bamyan where it held a consultative meeting on proposed amendments to the Election Law. At the same time, the head of the IEC, Fazl Ahmad Manawi, called on the international community to provide technical and financial support. The…