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Special Representative for Afghanistan Ján Kubiš briefs the Security Council.
UN Photo/Evan Schneider

At Security Council, UN envoy flags risk of development gains slipping in Afghanistan

19 December 2012
Poorly functioning government systems in Afghanistan mean that development gains are at risk of slipping amid the mounting international troop drawdown, the top United Nations official in the country said today.
UNAMA Human Rights Director Georgette Gagnon addressing a news conference in the Afghan capital of Kabul.
UNAMA/Fardin Waezi

UN report urges greater implementation of law protecting women’s rights in Afghanistan

11 December 2012
Afghan women continue to be targeted by acts of gender-based violence despite specific laws designed to protect them, a new report released by the United Nations Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has warned.
UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova.
UNESCO/D. Bijeljac

UN officials condemn assassination of women’s affairs worker in Afghanistan

10 December 2012
Along with a former President of Finland, two senior United Nations officials today jointly condemned the assassination of Nadia Sidiqi, an Afghan provincial official working in women’s affairs.
Vulnerable Afghan families line up to receive winter supplies in Dahsabz, a suburb of Kabul.
UNHCR/S.Murray-Jones

UN agency begins distributing winter aid in Afghanistan as temperatures begin to drop

30 November 2012
The United Nations refugee agency has begun distributing winter aid to some 40,000 families which are at risk in the cold weather in remote areas of Afghanistan, as well as the capital, Kabul.
OCHA Director of Operations John Ging (right) in Afghanistan on 26 April 2012.
OCHA

UN relief official calls for boost in humanitarian support for Afghanistan

29 November 2012
A senior United Nations official today called on the international community to step up its humanitarian support for Afghanistan to sustain the progress made so far in the country where thousands have suffered through 34 years of conflict and poverty.
Special Representative Ján Kubiš.
UNAMA/Fardin Waezi

Afghanistan: following deadly blast, UN mission calls on Taliban to halt use of improvised explosive devices

20 October 2012
Following the deaths of at least 18 women, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) today called on the Taliban leadership to publicly reiterate a ban on landmine-like improvised explosive device (IEDs) and to stop their use.
Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict Leila Zerrougui.
UN Photo/Violaine Martin

UN envoy voices concern at possible child deaths in Afghan airstrike

16 October 2012
A senior United Nations official today voiced grave concern regarding reports that three children may have been among those killed during an airstrike by international military forces in southern Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to the impacts of climate change.
Anssi Kullberg

UN environmental agency to help Afghanistan combat effects of climate change

11 October 2012
The United Nations is to help Afghanistan combat the effects of climate change, teaming up with the country’s Government to implement a $6 million initiative that aims to operate in vulnerable communities and shore up the ability of Afghan institutions to independently address risks posed by changes to the climate, the world body’s environmental agency announced today.
Ján Kubiš, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan.
UNAMA/Fardin Waezi

Afghanistan on track to building post-2014 future, says UN envoy

9 October 2012
Despite the impending drawdown of international forces and chronic challenges in governance and security, Afghanistan remains on the path to a hopeful future, the United Nations envoy to the country said today.
Afghan women bargain with a rickshaw driver in the city of Herat.
UNAMA/Fraidoon Poya

UN welcomes statement by Afghanistan confirming ‘running away’ is not a crime

3 October 2012
The United Nations today welcomed a public statement by Afghan officials clarifying that it is not a criminal offence for women and girls to ‘run away,’ stressing that official declarations like this can go a long way in protecting those who are forced to flee their homes to escape violence.