News from our Missions
Updates from UN special political missions supporting conflict prevention, mediation, peacebuilding and political processes worldwide.
31 March 2010 - At the release of the first “Afghanistan Cannabis Survey” by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Afghanistan Staffan de Mistura…
31 March 2010 - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan, Staffan de Mistura, has expressed his condolences over and condemned an attack on the office of the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) in…
KABUL - Today UNODC releases its first-ever Afghanistan Cannabis Survey showing that the world’s biggest producer of opium is also a major producer of cannabis. Full report Way down from the earlier figure of 70,000 hectares…
30 March 2010 - The top United Nations official in Afghanistan, Staffan de Mistura, flew today to the volatile southeastern provinces of Paktya and Khost to meet with UN staff and local communities and authorities in one of…
KABUL - Transcript of press conference in Kabul with Norah Niland, Representative of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Afghanistan. OHCHR (NORAH NILAND): Today, on behalf of the High Commissioner for Human Rights…
KABUL - UNAMA held a press conference in Kabul today with Norah Niland, Representative of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Afghanistan, to launch a report on the Human Rights Dimension of Poverty in Afghanistan…
29 March 2010 - The United Nations-supported mine action centre in Afghanistan destroyed nearly 112,000 different types of explosives in the first two months of this year and could do much more with additional funding, one of…
KABUL - The United Nations human rights office is urging that Afghanistan’s poor be at the centre of decision-making processes that affect their lives, after a new report found that rights abuses are exacerbating poverty in…
KABUL - Transcript of press conference in Kabul with Dr Haider Reza, Programme Director of the Mine Action Coordination Centre of Afghanistan (MACCA). MACCA (DR HAIDER REZA): Ladies and gentlemen, once more it is a pleasure…
29 March 2010 - Whether you sit down and have a cup of tea with Omara Khan Massoudi, the Director of the National Museum, or Nancy Hatch Dupree, Afghanistan’s grandmother, every one of the country’s cultural experts has an…
KABUL - Whether you sit down and have a cup of tea with Omara Khan Massoudi, the Director of the National Museum, or Nancy Hatch Dupree, Afghanistan’s grandmother, every one of the country’s cultural experts has an informed…