The Assistant Secretary-General of the UN, who also serves as Deputy Executive Director (Management) of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), met with Mohammad Younus Rashid,...
Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials on Friday met with Georgette Gagnon, the Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Afghanistan, and discussed preparations for...
A diverse and healthy media sector is indispensable in ensuring transparency, public trust, and good governance, but in Afghanistan there is steady erosion of a free...
Tom Fletcher, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator (OCHA), has said that the current level of assistance to Afghanistan is like “a...
The appeal comes ahead of meetings in Istanbul this week of the Afghanistan Coordination Group
The Islamic Emirate’s spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid says some Western countries, including the US, are preventing Afghanistan from gaining its seat at the United Nations. Mujahid added...
The UN in Afghanistan, UNAMA, said Wednesday it was deeply disappointed that for the fourth consecutive year, girls have again been denied access to secondary education....
United Nations spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric warned Monday that over four million Afghan girls could be deprived of an education by 2030 if the Islamic Emirate of...
The council said in a report that if approved, the mandate would extend the UNAMA mission for another year without changing its mandate and priorities.
Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Munir Akram, says Islamabad will submit a complaint to the UN against the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) and...
Greece’s representative said at a United Nations meeting Tuesday that the Islamic Emirate continues gender discrimination in Afghanistan, and any engagement with it cannot be detrimental...
The Ministry of Interior Affairs spokesman Abdul Matin Qane says the processing and smuggling of narcotics in Afghanistan has “significantly” decreased, and that the police forces...
Qatar's envoy to the UN says there have been some positive indicators in the global fight against drugs, citing Afghanistan as an example
“The Islamic Emirate has control over the entire geography of the country, and there is no unauthorized activity here, nor is it allowed,” said Fitrat.
India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Parvathaneni Harish, told the UN Security Council this week that “special” people-to-people ties have been the “foundation” of India’s...
On International Women’s Day, the United Nations in Afghanistan on Saturday called for the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) to lift restrictions, which it said, continue...
UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric on Thursday warned of the “severe” humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan. “More than half of the population, that’s 23 million human beings, are...
The most important thing right now in Afghanistan is to feed the nation, UN envoy Roza Otunbayeva said on Thursday. “We are trying to mobilize all...
Principle routes for new Daesh recruits to Afghanistan include travel through Turkey and Iran, U.N. sanctions monitors said in a new report. The latest report by...
Afghanistan has one of the highest death rates in the world for pregnant women, with a mother dying of preventable pregnancy complications every two hours