{"id":22070,"date":"2026-09-19T05:57:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T05:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/19\/un-welcomes-rabab-fatima-appointment-unama\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T05:57:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T05:57:43","slug":"un-welcomes-rabab-fatima-appointment-unama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/19\/un-welcomes-rabab-fatima-appointment-unama\/","title":{"rendered":"UN welcomes appointment of Rabab Fatima to lead UNAMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sima Bahous, Executive Director of UN Women, has welcomed the appointment of Rabab Fatima as the UN Secretary-General\u2019s Special Representative for Afghanistan and head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA).<\/p>\n<p>In congratulating Fatima on Saturday, 28 September, Bahous said UN Women would work with her at this sensitive time to support the rights, voice and leadership of Afghan women and girls.<\/p>\n<p>Rabab Fatima has recently been appointed as the UN Secretary-General\u2019s Special Representative for Afghanistan and head of UNAMA. She has previously worked in various parts of the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p>UNAMA is the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, which is responsible for advancing the political mission and coordinating part of the organisation\u2019s activities in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN Women welcomes Rabab Fatima\u2019s appointment as UN Special Representative for Afghanistan and head of UNAMA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}