News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

KABUL - The UN Security Council is scheduled to hold a session on Afghanistan tomorrow, 21 June, at 10:00 hours New York local time (18:30 hours Kabul local) and can be followed at http://webtv.un.org The session will also be available as a viewable video clip on UN Web TV a few hours after the…

NEW YORK - The latest quarterly report by UN Secretary-General António Guterres on the situation in Afghanistan and the activities of the United Nations in the country is now available. Read the full report by the Secretary-General here: The situation in Afghanistan and its implications for…

NEW YORK - The UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, Roza Otunbayeva, today briefed the Security Council on the situation in Afghanistan. Read the full text of the Security Council briefing by SRSG Roza Otunbayeva Read full text of the Secretary-General's Report on…

KABUL - Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) issued a statement today marking the International Day of Remembrance of and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism (21 August) and the International Day Commemorating the…

KABUL – The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) is concerned by the promulgation by Afghanistan’s de facto authorities of a morality law which imposes wide-ranging and far-reaching restrictions on personal conduct and provides morality police with broad powers of enforcement…

NEY YORK - The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the heinous terrorist attack that occurred in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, on 2 September, which was claimed by ISIL (Da’esh) -K and resulted in multiple people killed and many wounded. The members of the Security…

NEW YORK - The UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, Roza Otunbayeva, today briefed the Security Council on the situation in Afghanistan. Read the full text of the Security Council briefing by SRSG Roza Otunbayeva Read full text of the Secretary-General's Report on…

KABUL—On September 3, 2024, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres appointed Georgette Gagnon as his new Deputy Special Representative (Political) for Afghanistan in the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). She arrived in Kabul on 27 September 2024 to assume her…

KABUL - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has welcomed discussions with Afghanistan’s de facto Office of Prison Administration which demonstrated a firm commitment for continued cooperation and dialogue towards improving the conditions for detainees in its custody, and…

KABUL - Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) Roza Otunbayeva issued a statement today marking International Day of the Girl (11 October). “In Afghanistan, we mark this important day with a great deal of sorrow…

KABUL - UNAMA expresses its deep concern over disturbing reports of an incident on 14 to 15 October in Sistan province, Sarbaz district, Kala Gan border area of Iran, with allegations that a large group of Afghan migrants were opened fire on, resulting in deaths and injuries. UNAMA calls for…

KABUL - United Nations in Afghanistan calls upon the country’s de facto authorities to take immediate action to end violence against women and girls and to reverse the systematic erosion of women’s rights and the enjoyment of their fundamental freedoms that fosters such violence. The call is made as…