Reports

HERAT – Child casualties from Afghanistan’s conflict are running at alarming rates, say religious scholars during a UN-backed seminar on human rights in the western province of Herat. Religious scholars, human rights activists, provincial and district…

JALALABAD - In Afghanistan’s eastern region, two UN-backed peace initiatives in 2018 ended longstanding disputes and are continuing to demonstrate the power of local communities to determine their fate through consensus-building, even against the backdrop of…

Highlights 800,124 total returns from Iran and Pakistan since 01 Jan 2018 767,663 total returns from Iran since 01 Jan 2018 32,461 total returns from Pakistan since 01 Jan 2018 10,371 undocumented Afghans returned from Iran 434 undocumented Afghans returned from…

SITUATION UPDATE A total of 24,161 people are newly displaced due to conflict in November this year, bringing the total number of conflict driven internally displaced persons (IDPs) to 306,161 people in 2018 In the first 11 months…

Highlights 789,319 total returns from Iran and Pakistan since 01 Jan 2018 757,292 total returns from Iran since 01 Jan 2018 32,027 total returns from Pakistan since 01 Jan 2018 11,141 undocumented Afghans returned from Iran 508 undocumented Afghans returned from…

Kabul – Participants at Sunday’s (16/12) Kabul launch included Afghan government officials from the High Level Trafficking in Persons Commission, representatives of counter-trafficking-related national and international NGOs, UN agencies and media. “By passing a new trafficking law,…

Kabul, Afghanistan – The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the UN Migration Agency (IOM) launched Afghanistan’s National Referral Mechanism and Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Online Database in Kabul to strengthen counter trafficking protection measures…

Highlights 777,670 total returns from Iran and Pakistan since 01 Jan 2018 746,151 total returns from Iran since 01 Jan 2018 31,519 total returns from Pakistan since 01 Jan 2018 10,874 undocumented Afghans returned from Iran 496 undocumented Afghans returned from…

KANDAHAR - The importance of protecting the rights and well-being of children in the ongoing conflict came to life during several UN-backed events in Kandahar and Kunduz in recent weeks. Hundreds of community members, including women and…

Key issues in the past week: On 30 November 2018, a 4.9 magnitude earthquake hit Pule-Khumri city in Baghlan province: 1,190 people were affected, nine people were injured, 32 houses destroyed, and 138 houses damaged. Based on initial…