News from our Missions
18 April 2011 (IRIN) - Aid agencies and education officials are concerned that scaling down school feeding programmes in impoverished rural areas of Afghanistan could adversely affect school attendance and the health and…
19 April 2011 - The Ministry of Public Health in partnership with UNICEF and WHO is resuming for the second year vaccination weeks with a comprehensive package designed to protect children in vulnerable and hard-to-reach…
18 April 2011 – United Nations aid agencies and partner organizations in northeastern Afghanistan today strengthened the regional contingency plan in case of a natural or human induced disaster. The main objective of this…
Conakry, 15 April 2011 -The Regional Partners Round Table on the implementation of UN Security Council resolutions 1325 and 1820 on Women Peace and Security took place in Conakry on 15 April 2011 as a follow-up to the Dakar…
18 April 2011 (UNODC) - A slight decrease in poppy cultivation can be expected in Afghanistan in 2011, despite the current high price of opium, shows the Opium Winter Rapid Assessment Survey (ORAS) released by UNODC today…
13 April 2011- Hiring taxis instead of 4WDs, signing memos of understanding with local elites, and co-investing programmes with governments and locals, are some of the ways aid agencies have lowered risks to staff in highly…
14 April 2011 – Landlocked developing countries in the Asia-Pacific region today pledged during a United Nations-backed meeting in Mongolia to promote greater cooperation and to reduce trade and transport barriers in an…
15 April 2011 - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) urgently requires US$257 million to continue providing food and assistance to the 7.3 million vulnerable and food insecure Afghans it aims to support, mainly women…
Conakry, 15 April 2011 - The Regional Partners Round Table on the implementation of UN Security Council resolutions 1325 and 1820 on Women Peace and Security took place in Conakry on 15 April 2011 as a follow-up to the Dakar…
Conakry, 15 April 2011 - The Regional Partners Round Table on the implementation of UN Security Council resolutions 1325 and 1820 on Women Peace and Security took place in Conakry on 15 April 2011 as a follow-up to the Dakar…
14 April 2011 - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan has again called on the Taliban and anti-Government elements to reduce civilian casualties in Afghanistan and to contribute to human rights reports on the…
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan- Special Representative of the UN Secretary General Miroslav Jenča, Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for Kyrgyzstan Herbert Salber, and EU Special Representative for Central Asia…