News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

KABUL - The top United Nations official in Afghanistan today called for better coordination and cooperation between Afghanistan’s independent electoral bodies — the Independent Election Commission (IEC) and the Independent Election Complaint Commission (IECC) — as clear and uniformed understanding…

KABUL - The UN Chief has called for more efforts to empower individuals through decent work, support people through social protection, and ensure that the voices of the poor and marginalised are heard.“The gap between the poorest and the wealthiest around the world is wide and growing… this…

KABUL - The top United Nations official in Afghanistan described the upcoming Presidential and Provincial Council elections, slated for 5 April 2014, as “a new chapter in the life of the country,” involving not only a political transition but also a major step in developing the democratic system and…

KABUL - Afghanistan is slated to hold Presidential elections on 5 April 2014. In line with its mandate from the United Nations Security Council and at the request of the Afghan authorities, the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) is charged with supporting the 2014 poll. The election will…

KABUL - Afghanistan’s Ministry of Interior (MoI) has been intensifying efforts to ensure security for the maximum number of the polling stations on election day, slated for 5 April. According to the Ministry’s spokesperson, during the last week alone security threats to 24 non-functional polling…

KABUL - By Afghan tradition, on the 40th day after the death of four United Nations staff in a terrorist attack on a restaurant in the Afghan capital, Kabul, the UN staff remembered their colleagues in a brief memorial ceremony held at the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA)…

KABUL - A new booklet containing Afghanistan’s first Code of Conduct for its national police force will soon be in the hands of Afghan National Police (ANP) personnel across the country. Released this week, the illustrated pocket booklet and a poster in Dari and Pashto set out the code’s uniform…

BRUSSELS - Below is the briefing by the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Representative and the head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Ján Kubiš, to the "Meeting of the North Atlantic Council with Non-NATO ISAF Contributing Ministers at the level of Defence Ministers,"…

KABUL - While welcoming the first report of the Government of Afghanistan on the implementation of a landmark law that seeks to stem violence against women, a senior human rights official with the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) reiterated a call for the law’s full…

KABUL - An independent monitoring body for the implementation of United Nations drug control conventions has urged Afghanistan – the world’s largest producer of opium – to translate into “concrete action and results” its national drug control strategy, which aims to make the country poppy-free in…

GHAZNI - Religious scholars in Ghazni province on Wednesday urged families not to bar female members from casting their votes in next month’s elections.The views were expressed at a day-long seminar 'Women’s Participation in Elections from Islamic Perspective' in Ghazni City, where government…

KABUL - The women’s committee of the High Peace Council (HPC), an Afghan body leading the country’s peace efforts, today submitted a petition – containing the signatures of more than 250,000 Afghan women and girls calling for peace and a cease-fire – to the United Nations Assistance Mission in…