"UNITED NATIONS ASSISTANCE MISSION IN AFGHANISTAN - UNAMA"

General Assembly adopts $3.4 billion programme budget for 2023, approves permanent shift to annual cycle, concluding main part of Seventy-Seventh Session.

Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Women literally being erased from public life in Afghanistan, speaker tells Security Council, sounding alarm over country’s dire situation.

Roza Otunbayeva, Special Representative for Afghanistan, said that the Taliban’s decision to suspend women from secondary education is “causing damage today that will be felt long into the future.” UNIFEED

Briefing reporters virtually from Kabul, the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Afghanistan Ramiz Alakbarov said current economic shocks “are the primary drivers” of humanitarian needs in the country. UNIFEED

Afghanistan’s future depends on Taliban’s engagement with world, but restrictions on women signal lack of international commitments, briefer warns Security Council.

The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) expresses "its mounting concern about de facto authorities’ actions against Afghan female employees of the United Nations. The Mission urges the de facto authorities to abide by their obligations to respect the privileges and immunities of the UN and all its staff, including their freedom of movement throughout the country," a UN Spokesperson said. UNIFEED

Afghanistan: no other country in the world where women and girls have “so rapidly” been deprived of their fundamental rights “purely because of gender,” UN-appointed expert told Human Rights Council. UNTV CH

Briefing by Afghan parliamentarian Naheed Farid, human rights activist and feminist Najiba Sanjar, and Permanent Representative of Norway to the UN Mona Juul, on the situation of women in Afghanistan.

With security deteriorating, the UN calls on the de facto Taliban authorities to take concrete steps to prevent all forms of terrorism in Afghanistan, said a UN spokesperson. UNIFEED