Reports

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The armed conflict in Afghanistan continued to take a heavy toll on the civilian population in 2019 with UNAMA recording over 10,000 civilian casualties for the sixth year in a row. Since UNAMA began systematic…

IN THIS ISSUE Ongoing fighting resulted in deaths and damage to health clinic and public school Closure of health facilities in Laghman province Ongoing fighting results in civilian deaths in Faryab province Over 4,500 people receive humanitarian assistance Avalanches cause deaths…

A quarter of Afghanistan’s population – 9.4m people – will require humanitarian assistance this year. More than half of those in need are children. 18 years of conflict has turned Afghanistan into one of the most dangerous…

No Political Will to Prosecute Powerful Perpetrators (New York) – Two recent cases in Afghanistan highlight the failure of authorities to prosecute sexual assault implicating powerful people, Human Rights Watch said today. The Afghan government should take…

Northeast: Over 3,000 people received humanitarian assistance Reports surfaced of an airstrike impacting a school and a clinic in the Baghi Shirkat area of Kunduz province during last week’s fighting between the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF)…

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Andrej Mahecic – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. UNHCR, the UN Refugee…

0.6M Children to be reached 66.3M Funding requested (USD) 26.8M Funding gap for 2020 (USD) HUMANITARIAN NEEDS Decades of conflict have severely strained the education system in Afghanistan. Worsened by years of under-development, public schools do not have sufficient capacity…

Summary In the present report, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights describes the situation of human rights in Afghanistan from 1 January to 30 November 2019, and provides an overview of the work, including technical…

Kabul, Afghanistan, February 5, 2020 — On January 31, an airstrike in Afghanistan killed a family of five, including nine-year-old Fatih Mohammad who was enrolled in the International Rescue Committee’s (IRC) education program in Badghis province. Vicki…

Northeast: Fighting and military operations affect access and result in several deaths The security and humanitarian access situation remained uncertain due to localized skirmishes between the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) and a Non-State Armed Group (NSAG)…