Reports

ICRC Press release No. 07/118 Geneva/Nyon (ICRC) - The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) has chosen the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) as the official charity partner for the EURO 2008™ football championship to be held in…

Kabul - 12 November, 2007 COMMENT ON THE BAGHLAN ATTACK The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan shares the grief of the entire Afghan nation at last week's bomb attack in Baghlan. That children and representatives of the people should be…

Kabul, 10 November 2007 - On Sunday 11 November, the Ministry of Education will launch the first training of trainers for Mine Risk Education and Disability Awareness as part of its school and child protection programme in partnership with…

GA/SHC/3904 Sixty-second General Assembly Third Committee 41st & 42nd Meetings (AM & PM) Red Cross Cautions against Preferential Treatment For Displaced People over Other Categories of Victims As the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) today concluded its review of the…

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) began helping Afghan people in 1979 from Pakistan, providing medical and surgical assistance to the war-wounded in Peshawar and Quetta. Since 1987, the ICRC has been present in Afghanistan. Today, with…

SC/9166 AFG/305 The following Security Council press statement on the 6 November attack in Afghanistan was delivered today by Council President Marty Natalegawa ( Indonesia): The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the suicide attack against a…

GA/SHC/3903 Sixty-second General Assembly Third Committee 39th & 40th Meetings (AM & PM) Refugee Figures Rise to Nearly 10 Million After Several Years of Decrease, High Commissioner Tells Committee A draft resolution that would have the General Assembly declare 15 October…

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour strongly condemned the bombing yesterday in Baghlan, northern Afghanistan, that left at least 41 people dead, including numerous children and six members of Parliament. "There are no terms strong enough to express…

Dr. Nilab Mobarez, UNAMA: Ladies and gentlemen, good morning and welcome to our press briefing. My name is Nilab Mobarez. I am joined this morning by Mr Salvatore Lombardo, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) representative for Afghanistan. Before I…

GA/10654 Sixty-second General Assembly Plenary 44th & 45th Meetings (AM & PM) Afghanistan Asks for 'Long and Sustained Commitment' by World Community; Assembly Also Discusses United Nations Support for New, Restored Democracies Deeply concerned by the "increasingly strong nexus" between Taliban-led…