Informes

Action Taken Days Before Key Donor Pledging Conference Heather Barr Associate Director, Women's Rights Division On March 21 the Taliban promised to reopen all schools in Afghanistan, ending their seven-month de-facto ban on girls attending secondary school. Two days…

KABUL, 23 March - Today, Taliban leadership announced that all secondary school classes for girls are to be suspended, pending further policy. Earlier in the week, the Ministry of Education confirmed that all boys and girls would…

Highlights UNICEF began the distribution of emergency cash support for an estimated 194,000 public teachers with 113,868 teachers paid in February. UNICEF estimates 3.2 million children in Afghanistan will suffer from acute malnutrition in 2022, and a million…

In Numbers 22.8 million people – half of the population – are projected to be acutely food insecure in 2022,1 including 8.7 million at risk of famine-like conditions 4.7 million children, pregnant and lactating women at risk of…

Overview With support from partners and donors, the World Health Organization (WHO) continues to sustain the functionality of 104 health facilities across the 34 provinces of Afghanistan. This includes 96 hospitals under the Sehatmandi Project, five COVID-19…

FAIRFIELD, Conn. (March 17, 2022) — An Afghan mother agreed to sell her unborn baby as the country's economic crisis forces jobless, debt-stricken parents to abandon their children, Save the Children said. Stories like these are becoming…

The generous contribution will help increase equitable coverage of lifesaving emergency services for nearly 69,000 children and their parents KABUL, March 10, 2022 – To expand access to lifesaving services for some of the most vulnerable and…

SC/14833 Delegates Say New Mandate Reflects Increased Commitment to Women’s, Girls’ Needs The Security Council decided today to extend the mandate of the United Nations special political mission in Afghanistan for one year, shifting its priority tasks to…

Without a Functioning Central Bank, Aid Not Enough Fereshta Abbasi Researcher, Asia Division FereshtaAbbasi “Children in the provinces – they are only skin on bones now – and I’m afraid this is only going to get worse,” the director of…

The Security Council, Recalling its previous resolutions on Afghanistan, in particular its resolution 2596 (2021) extending through 17 March 2022 the mandate of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Stressing the important role that the United…