14 Jul 2011 - 14 July 2011 - Landmine-like explosive devices drove the 15 percent increase in civilian casualties in Afghanistan in the first half of this year,United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) announced in Kabul today....
14 Jul 2011 - KABUL - Staffan de Mistura, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan: Bismillah al-Rahman al-Rahim. Thank you for coming. I think it is the right time, I’m sorry to say, for addressing issues relating to civilian casualties. We do have a report – every...
14 Jul 2011 - KABUL - Staffan de Mistura, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan:Bismillah al-Rahman al-Rahim. Thank you for coming. I think it is the right time, I’m sorry to say,for addressing issues relating to civilian casualties. We do have a report – every six...
07 Jun 2011 - KABUL - Ambassador Peter Wittig, Germany’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations; Chair of the UN Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict; and of the UN Security Council Resolution 1267 (1999) Committee concerning the Al-Qaida and Taliban...
03 Apr 2011 - KABUL - Staffan de Mistura: I will start first speaking to the Afghan colleagues. I have just returned a few minutes ago from Mazar-e-Sharif.I was waiting at the airport to receive our dead colleagues, to be received in dignity, and they have just arrived....
09 Mar 2011 - KABUL - Staffan de Mistura, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan; Ivan Simonovic, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights; Georgette Gagnon, Director of UNAMA Human Rights; and Sima Samar, Chairperson of Afghan Independent Human Rights...
22 Dec 2010 - KABUL - UNAMA Human Rights Unit Director Georgette Gagnon and AIHRC Deputy Chairman Ahmad Fahim Hakim release the report at the UNAMA office in Kabul....
09 Dec 2010 - KABUL - Harmful traditional practices that violate the human rights of women and girls are pervasive in Afghanistan, occurring in varying degrees in all communities throughout the country, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said in a report released...
14 Sep 2010 - KABUL - Dr F A Manawi, Chief of the Independent Election Commission (IEC) and UN special envoy Staffan de Mistura held a press conference at the IEC headquarters in Kabul today, where they tested the indelible ink to be used in the 18 September parliamentary elections.
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16 Jul 2010 - NEW YORK - Kimberly Prost, the newly appointed Ombudsperson of the Security Council’s 1267 Committee — also known as the Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee — pledged at Headquarters today that she would make her office independent and accessible to sanctioned individuals...
24 Jun 2010 - KABUL - The visit has been very productive, thanks to the excellent organization of UNAMA. It was also thanks to the sincerity of our interlocutors....
13 Jun 2010 - KABUL - Transcript of press conference in Kabul by Staffan de Mistura, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Afghanistan.
Staffan de Mistura: Thank you for being here. I would like to start again with what we have been somewhat interrupting...
26 Apr 2010 - KABUL - Transcript of press conference in Kabul by Dr Eric Laroche, Assistant Director-General for Health Action in Crises, World Health Organization (WHO), Peter Graaff, WHO Representative in Afghanistan, and Dr Nilab Mobarez, UNAMA spokesperson.
DR NILAB MOBAREZ : Good...