News from our Missions
HELMAND - Clean water network was constructed and ready for use in Nad-e-Ali district of Helmand province. Governor Al-haj Mohammad Naem, deputy minister for rural rehabilitation and development affairs, Mohammad Tariq Asmaty…
KANDAHAR - A public awareness meeting on violence against women was held at the regional office of Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) in Kandahar. The meeting was attended by the Government officials…
KABUL - The head of Afghanistan’s Transition Coordination Commission today announced that the fourth tranche of transition would commence within the next two months, adding that once this is completed, Afghan forces would…
SRSG Miroslav Jenca's Article "The Concept of Preventive Diplomacy and Its Application by the United Nations in Central Asia" was published at “Security and Human Rights” Journal, Volume 24, Issue no.2 /2013. DOI: 10.1163…
MAZAR - A four-day workshop on Islamic prospective of child rights was launched by Coordination of Afghan Relief (CoAR) on Sunday in Mazar-i-Sharif. Over a hundred non-governmental personnel mainly working in the districts of…
KUNDUZ - The UNAMA office in Kunduz held an “End of Year” celebration party for children on Monday. Over 120 children of all ages gathered at the UNAMA compound to welcome the year of 2013 and played football, flew kites…
We have come to the end of an historic year for Somalia, for the region and for the rest of the international community. On 10 September 2012 a new Somali Parliament, sitting in Mogadishu, elected a President—the first such…
29 December 2012- The United Nations System in Guinea-Bissau expresses its deepest condolences to the authorities and people of Guinea-Bissau for the lives lost during the boat tragedy of Friday 28 December 2012 and joins…
HELMAND - The peace and reconciliation process is proceeding successfully in Helmand province and hundreds of insurgents have joined the peace process and several reconstruction projects implemented through APRP, said the…
BALKH - Afghan Refugees and Repatriation Minister, Dr. Jamahir Anwari on Wednesday described absence of shelters as a major problem for the Afghans returning to the country. Speaking to journalists in Mazar-i-Sharif while…
KABUL - Over 4,000 Afghan refugee families returned back to their cities in the 9 north and northeastern province of Afghanistan since the beginning of 2012, said the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)…