Informes

Highlights: On 15 and 16 July, heavy windstorms, severe rainfall and flash floods struck multiple districts in eastern and northeastern Afghanistan (Badakhshan, Kunar, Laghman, Nangarhar, and Nuristan provinces), resulting in 40 fatalities and 251 injuries, and significant…

Jelena Bjelica • Rohullah Sorush Afghanistan was, until recently, famously, the largest cultivator of illegal opiates in the world. Less well-known is that it is among the countries with the highest prevalence rates of drug use. In…

In the first half of 2024, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) facilitated improved access to primary health care, mostly for women and children, by supporting the routine vaccination and nutrition support initiatives at…

Afghanistan Population: 41.7 million People in Need: 24 million Our Impact People Helped Last Year: 1,291,830 Our Team: 932 employees Program Start: 1980 Over 700,000 People Have Been Forced to Flee After more than 10 years of calling Pakistan home, Jan Mohammad was forced…

The objective of having a Humanitarian Country Team’s (HCT) Centrality of Protection (CoP) strategy is to mobilize a holistic, multi-sectoral, system-wide effort to prevent, mitigate and respond to Critical Protection Risks (CPRs) facing affected populations. It…

This monthly protection update for Afghanistan provides a comprehensive overview of UNHCR’s different protection programs, aiming to prevent, mitigate and respond to protection risks faced by vulnerable populations in the context of the current humanitarian crisis…

Introduction The analysis provided in this report relies on data gathered through UNHCR’s protection monitoring tools. UNHCR’s Community Based Protection Monitoring (CBPM) interventions include household-level assessments, key informant interviews and focus group discussions (FGDs), aiming to collect…

Sahar Fetrat Researcher, Women's Rights Division Sahar_fetrat Heather Barr Associate Director, Women's Rights Division heatherbarr1 Imagine a country where everything — everything — about how your life unfolds depends on your gender. If you’re a girl, you’re banned from all education once…

KABUL– The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) is concerned by the promulgation by Afghanistan’s de facto authorities of a morality law which imposes wide-ranging and far-reaching restrictions on personal conduct and provides morality police…

HIGHLIGHTS ▪ UN High Commissioner Filippo Grandi concluded a successful three-day visit to Pakistan from 7 to 9 July. During his visit, he met with Afghan refugees in Peshawar and Haripur and held discussions with Prime Minister…