Afghan

Antonio M. Costa

UN anti-narcotics chief calls for wide-spectrum action against Afghan opium production

28 June 2006
Afghanistan, the world’s largest opium producer, is already a “narco-economy” and risks becoming a “narco-state,” with drug production its largest employer, the top United Nations drugs and crime fighter warned today.
Footballs donated to children by UNAMA staff

Catching World Cup soccer fever, UN gives footballs to Afghanistan’s aspiring stars

21 June 2006
While the world’s top soccer players duel it out on the manicured playing fields of Germany in football’s World Cup, aspiring stars in Afghanistan are honing their skill on the dirt pitches of the violence-wracked country thanks to hundreds of footballs donated by staff of the United Nations mission there.

Afghanistan: UN calls on national, international forces to avert civilian casualties

19 June 2006
With operations going on in southern Afghanistan, the United Nations mission in the country called on both national and international security forces to exercise caution to prevent civilian casualties.

Afghanistan: UN food agency concerned at attacks on schools; faces funding shortfall

16 June 2006
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is concerned about the increasing number of threats and attacks on schools in Afghanistan, where it is involved in on-site and take-home rations, school feeding, construction and de-worming programmes.

Afghanistan: senior UN official ‘shocked and saddened’ by deadly bus bombing

15 June 2006
The senior United Nations envoy in Afghanistan today sharply condemned the deadly bus bombing that killed more than 10 people in the southern city of Kandahar and called on the authorities to do everything possible to bring those responsible to justice.
Leandro Despouy

Afghanistan: UN rights expert deplores reported public execution by Taliban

8 June 2006
A United Nations human rights expert today condemned “in very strong terms” the reported public execution by Afghanistan’s ousted Taliban regime of an alleged murderer in Daikundi province.
Tom Koenigs, SRSG for Afghanistan

Afghanistan traffic accident regrettable but no excuse for riots, UN envoy says

5 June 2006
Expressing sympathy to the law-abiding people who were affected by last week’s rioting in Kabul, the United Nations envoy in Afghanistan today said the traffic accident which led to the unrest was no excuse for the looting and destruction which followed.

More Afghan refugee camps close in Pakistan as part of UN repatriation plan

2 June 2006
Afghanistan, Pakistan and the United Nations refugee agency have agreed on the closure of three refugee camps in Pakistan while pledging to step up their efforts to find solutions for 2.6 million Afghan refugees still left there.