News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

HERAT - To help improve local governance, civil society representatives came together at a UN-backed conference in Herat to detail plans to become more involved in provincial development projects and administrative affairs. Herat’s civil society leaders, including members of women’s networks, labour…

KUNDUZ - A UN radio series on youth in politics is expected to reach an audience of 800,000 Afghans across four northeastern provinces in the coming weeks. The first episode in the four-part series, designed to encourage young people to participate in politics, launched on Radio Roshani in Kunduz…

KABUL - This week, Afghanistan joined three other countries in adopting a UN policy tool aimed at strengthening public confidence in justice institutions. The Afghanistan Rule of Law Indicators Study (ROLIS) report, outlined at a Kabul press conference this week, is based on a UN analysis mechanism…

KABUL - Ahead of International Youth Day, celebrated globally on 12 August, hundreds of Afghan young people gathered in the provinces of Kandahar and Nangarhar to call on all parties to the conflict in Afghanistan to do more to promote peace. This week, some 500 young people in the capitals of…

DAIKUNDI - Religious leaders must play a role in promoting peace in Afghanistan, Islamic scholars and community elders urged at a UN-backed event in the central Afghan province of Daikundi. More than 50 religious and community leaders gathered for the conference, organized by regional office of the…

NEW YORK - The United Nations Security Council on Sunday strongly condemned the series of terrorist attacks that have taken place in the Afghan capital, Kabul, since last Thursday and resulted in hundreds of casualties and at least 70 deaths, including children. “The members of the Security Council…

KABUL - Empowering young Afghans remains crucial for the country’s development, according to a United Nations report released in Kabul today. “Investing in Youth,” a new United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) report, focuses on the social integration of young Afghans and how they can effectively…

KABUL - Three attacks by Anti-Government Elements in Kabul on 7 August caused at least 355 civilian casualties – 42 deaths and 313 injured – the highest number of civilians killed and injured in one day since the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) began systematically recording…

KABUL - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) condemns the killing today of at least eight civilians and the injuring of more than 200 in Kabul. “I condemn, in the strongest terms, today’s indiscriminate attack in Kabul,” said Nicholas Haysom, the Secretary-General’s Special…

KABUL - The Afghan conflict continued to exact a heavy toll on Afghan civilians in the first six months of 2015, with civilian casualties projected to equal or exceed the record high numbers documented in 2014, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said today. Released today…

KANDAHAR - Greater protection of women from violence and legal action against perpetrators of violence should be among the key benefits of Afghanistan’s Elimination of Violence Against Women (EVAW) law, according to panelists at a UN-backed event in Kandahar. The Institute of War and Peace Reporting…

MAZAR-E-SHARIF - Birth registration numbers have grown in Afghanistan’s northern region, with the support of a UN project designed to help prevent child labour, counter child marriage and otherwise protect the rights of children. According to officials from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF…