Rapports

Here are five reasons the International Rescue Committee’s Emergency Watchlist ranks Afghanistan second among countries most at risk of humanitarian catastrophe in 2021. Afghanistan has risen to second on the International Rescue Committee's annual Emergency Watchlist due…

South: Over 2,000 IDPs identified to receive humanitarian assistance During the reporting period, fighting between Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) and a non-state armed group (NSAG) continued with reported airstrikes and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) detonations in…

Afghanistan: Country’s four million internally displaced need urgent support amid pandemic The Afghan government and the international community must urgently scale up efforts to support the country’s four million internally displaced people (IDPs), who have been left…

WHAT HAPPENED IN 2020? In 2020, the number of people in urgent need of humanitarian assistance almost doubled due mainly to conflict, natural disasters and the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in…

South: Fighting continued and civilians displaced During the reporting period, fighting between Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) and a non-state armed group (NSAG) continued with reported airstrikes and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) detonations in Kandahar, Hilmand, and…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Women and girls in Afghanistan are extremely vulnerable to gender-based violence (GBV) and face substantial barriers accessing healthcare facilities to seek help after such violence. This is widely known. Much less is known about sexual…

A. Situation analysis Description of the disaster Forty years of war, recurrent natural disasters, increasing poverty, and COVID-19 are devastating the people of Afghanistan. Conflict continues to drive extreme physical and psychological harm and is forcibly displacing hundreds…

SC/14472 Six months into Afghanistan’s latest round of peace talks, progress remains slow and demands strong support from the global community, the senior United Nations official in the country told the Security Council today, while also sounding…

Summary Humanitarian needs driven and exacerbated by conflict, natural disasters and the multi-dimensional impact of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to affect millions of people in Afghanistan at the end of 2020. The emergence of COVID-19 in Afghanistan…

Disruptions in health services due to COVID-19 “may have contributed to an additional 239,000 child and maternal deaths in South Asia” - new UN report Kathmandu/Bangkok/New Delhi, 17 March 2021: Drastic cuts in the availability and use…