Afghan

Poppy fields

UNDP holds first counter-narcotics workshop for Afghan legislators

29 August 2006
With poppy cultivation a serious and growing problem in Afghanistan, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has lead a workshop for members of the counter-narcotics commissions of both houses of the country’s National Assembly.
SRSG Tom Koenigs in Kabul

Afghanistan: UN envoy ‘appalled’ by suicide attack that killed many children

28 August 2006
The top United Nations envoy to Afghanistan said today he was “appalled” by a suicide attack that killed 17 civilians, mostly children, and wounded many more in the southern province of Helmand, adding it was wrong when any conflict was played out in a civilian arena.
SRSG Tom Koenigs cuts ribbon at ceremony

UN opens new offices in Afghanistan’s troubled southern region

17 August 2006
The United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA) has opened a new regional office in Qalat, Zabul, in the south of the country, where a growing insurgency threatens stability, as part of its efforts to work with Afghans to boost development and monitor human rights.
Tom Koenigs, SRSG in Afghanistan

Reported execution of Afghan prompts UN envoy to take stand against death penalty

17 August 2006
The top United Nations envoy in Afghanistan today condemned the death penalty as reports emerged that Iranian authorities recently executed an Afghan national living in Iran.

As drought and floods strike different Afghan regions, UN agencies rush to help

15 August 2006
The United Nations humanitarian arm has stepped in to assist Afghanistan, where the population is suffering on two fronts – drought is devastating large swathes of the country and recent floods have caused damage to two provinces.

Domestic violence in Afghanistan is ‘endemic,’ perpetrators go unpunished – UN study

14 August 2006
Domestic violence against Afghan women appears endemic, and attacks against them usually take place with impunity, according to a disturbing new report by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM).

With UN help, parliamentarians’ resource centre for women opens in Afghanistan

9 August 2006
A new resource centre aimed at helping women Members of Parliament in Afghanistan to become strong political leaders and gain the knowledge they need to help shape the country’s future has opened thanks to support from the United Nations.

Afghanistan: UN expert voices outrage as number of attacks on Afghan schools leaps

9 August 2006
The number of attacks by terrorist groups against Afghan schools during the first half of this year was almost three times the level for the whole of 2005, prompting a United Nations expert on the right to education to express his “profound condemnation” and to voice concern that girls are suffering the most from the terrorists’ campaign.
Tom Koenigs, SRSG for Afghanistan

Afghanistan: UN mission will expand its presence in southern part of country

7 August 2006
With Afghanistan facing a growing insurgency in its southern and southeastern provinces, the top United Nations envoy to that country today announced that the UN mission planned to step up its efforts there.

Attacks on schools in Afghanistan could erode fragile progress – UNICEF

4 August 2006
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned today that schools in Afghanistan are the targets of increasingly dramatic attacks and called on all parties not to target any students, teachers or educational institutions.