News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

PAKTIKA - Providing children with access to education in remote and conflict-affected areas, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) recently completed 52 new community-based schools in Afghanistan’s southeastern province…

KABUL - Afghanistan must shield and develop its real human rights advances, said a senior UNAMA official in an interview issued Tuesday, pledging the UN’s commitment to remaining centre stage with Afghans to safeguard the…

KABUL - The United Nations expressed its outrage at today’s murder of nine civilians working with the People in Need agency. "Once again, I am appalled to be speaking out following the killing of aid workers who are providing…

KABUL - The Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, Nicholas Haysom, discussed the need for electoral reform and other key issues in a 1 June meeting with Chief Executive Officer Dr. Abdullah Abdullah…

NANGARHAR - More Afghan women should be working as journalists, said panellists during a UNAMA-backed televised debate broadcast in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar this week. The debate, organized by UNAMA’s…

KABUL - Women must play a central role in helping to shape Afghanistan’s future, especially in regard to any peace process, said the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, Nicholas Haysom, during a…

KUNDUZ - The protection of civilians in armed conflict was the focus of a UN-backed advocacy meeting, held in Kunduz, that brought together key members of the local community. Organized by the Afghanistan Independent Human…

KABUL - The conflict in Afghanistan is resulting in thousands of people being killed or wounded, forcing families to leave their homes and seek refuge in neighbouring communities, said Mark Bowden, the UN Secretary-General’s…

HERAT - The importance of expanded public-private partnerships to propel economic growth and social development was highlighted at a conference in Herat. The one-day conference yesterday, organized by UNAMA’s Herat-based…

GARDEZ - Forging a working partnership between Provincial Councils and Civil Society lies at the heart of a series of recent UNAMA-backed meetings taking place across the country. In the latest meeting in Sharan in Paktika…

DUSHANBE - The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met with Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, Chief Executive Officer of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, on the margins of the High-Level International Conference on the…