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Highlights The health cluster continued working with MoPH on the health cluster transition plan 50% increase in the number of casualties in February 2016 compared with the same month in 2015 (EMERGENCY NGO) 38.3% of all reported consultations during…
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At least six members of an Afghan family have been killed by an improvised explosive device in eastern Afghanistan. Those killed by the blast included four children, a police official in Paktika Province said on February 20. Police…
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New York – During a mission by Leila Zerrougui, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, the Afghan Government reiterated its commitment to fully implement its Action Plan to end and prevent…
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Protect All Medical Facilities, Patients, Health Workers From Attack (New York, February 19, 2016) – The Afghan government should promptly and thoroughly investigate reports that on February 17, 2016, Afghan Special Forces raided a medical clinic in…
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BALKH, Afghanistan – It was after midnight and Bibi Gul* was in critical condition when her husband and eldest daughter brought her to a hospital in Balkh, a province in northern Afghanistan. When the nurses examined her,…
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Patricia Gossman Senior Researcher, Afghanistan This won’t be news to those who suffer the daily horror of suicide attacks, bombings, kidnappings, and other atrocities. But the latest six-monthly report by the United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA)…
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Children Trained in Madrasas to Fight, Plant IEDs (New York, February 17, 2016) – Taliban forces in Afghanistan have added scores of children to their ranks since mid-2015 in violation of the international prohibition on the use…
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Kabul – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs together with UNAMA and UNICEF held a meeting to welcome Ms. Leila Zerrougui, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict and discuss the implementation…
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Listen to the news A quarter of all Afghans killed last year were children, many of them targeted in hospitals and schools. That's according to the UN's Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, Leila Zerrougui, who has…
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KABUL - Recognizing the progress made by the Afghan Government to prevent the recruitment and use of children in the National Security Forces, a top UN official renewed the world body’s pledge to support Afghanistan to…
