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Top UN envoy says listening to voices of citizens critical to Afghan stability

KABUL - The top United Nations official in Afghanistan today said that Afghan leaders should incorporate people’s views and proposed solutions into all efforts aimed at stabilizing the country.

15 Jan 2015

UN-backed survey to help improve Afghan lives

KABUL - A United Nations-backed large-scale survey, conducted in the Afghan capital last year, has a broad range of findings which can be used to help improve the lives of citizens.

14 Jan 2015

UN launches this season’s winter assistance in south-eastern Afghanistan

PAKTYA - Afghan authorities and United Nations humanitarian agencies this week launched an assistance programme for people affected by this year’s harsh winter in the country’s south-eastern region.

03 Jan 2015

Afghan media watchdog reports 64 per cent increase in violence against journalists in 2014

KABUL - An Afghan media watchdog today reported a 64 per cent increase in violence against journalists in 2014 and called for greater protection of media workers.

31 Dec 2014

UN-implemented projects in eastern Afghanistan benefit thousands

JALALABAD - The United Nations agency responsible for promoting environmentally and socially sustainable cities and towns recently completed construction of several development projects, benefitting some 50,000 people in Afghanistan’s eastern regional hub of Jalalabad.

30 Dec 2014

2014 sees highest civilian casualty figures recorded

NEW YORK - The number of civilians killed and injured in Afghanistan this year is the highest ever recorded by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), said its head, Nicholas Haysom, at a press conference at UN headquarters in New York today.

19 Dec 2014

UNAMA chief briefs Security Council on Afghanistan

NEW YORK - The United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, Nicholas Haysom, briefed the Security Council today on the Secretary-General’s latest report regarding the situation in the country and the world body’s recent wo

18 Dec 2014

Afghan audiences from across the country debate the UN’s role in country with UNAMA head

KABUL- The top United Nations official in Kabul, Nicholas Haysom, stressed the world body’s commitment to support Afghanistan and to back the nascent Government of National Unity, during a debate with Afghan audiences broadcast today on state television.

15 Dec 2014

Afghan President, UN envoy decry human rights violations

KABUL - Afghanistan’s President and a senior UN official today condemned widespread human rights violations in the country and urged that perpetrators be held to account.

14 Dec 2014

Afghanistan Report of the UN Secretary-General to the Security Council

NEW YORK - The latest quarterly report on the situation in Afghanistan and the activities of the United Nations there is available now.

13 Dec 2014

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