Afghanistan
KABUL, 20 June 2016 – The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) expresses grave concern about today’s series of attacks in civilian populated areas that killed and maimed civilians across Afghanistan. UNAMA condemns in the strongest terms…
Afghanistan
Today is the UN Day Against Child Labour, a day that is not widely acknowledged in the media. Decades of armed conflict have devastated Afghanistan's economy and employment opportunities for adults are scarce. Many children are sent to…
Afghanistan
HIGHLIGHTS Hospitals in Uruzgan face severe access constraints and a shortage of medicines halting health care delivery services EMERGENCY and MRCA health teams brave volatile and dangerous conditions to deliver medical care Deliberate and indiscriminate attacks on health workers…
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HERAT - Calling for more Afghan girls to be educated, participants at a UN event in the western province of Herat discussed the importance of raising awareness among community residents about the critical need for girls…
Afghanistan
Today the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the European Union held their second human rights dialogue in the Ministry of Foreign Affiars. The dialogue was opened by H.E. 2nd Vice President of Islamic…
Afghanistan
KABUL - The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) is deeply concerned by the spate of abductions, hostage-taking and summary executions carried out in recent days against passengers travelling in civilian vehicles. Armed Taliban personnel executed at…
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This month’s update highlights children and armed conflict concerns and provides recommendations for the protection of children in the situations of Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Mali. The update also provides information…
Afghanistan
By Olof Blomqvist Farzana shivers with her seven children in what has been her home for more than a decade in Chaman-e-Babrak, Afghanistan. This settlement in northern Kabul houses hundreds of displaced families who have been forced…
Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Number of people internally displaced by conflict doubled to 1.2 million in just three years The number of Afghans who have fled violence and remained trapped in their own country – where they live on the…
Afghanistan
KABUL - The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) condemns today’s suicide attack in an outlying western suburb of Kabul which killed eleven civilians and injured ten. The suicide bomber detonated against a shuttle bus transporting employees…
