Afghanistan
By Jared Ferrie YANGON, 30 September 2015 (IRIN) - With the government hospital shut down, a facility run by Médecins Sans Frontières is now the only place for people needing urgent trauma care to be treated in…
Afghanistan
GENEVA (29 September 2015) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein today expressed deep concern about the human rights situation in Afghanistan's northeastern city of Kunduz following a major Taliban attack yesterday.…
Afghanistan
SG/SM/17141-AFG/443 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General condemns the attack, claimed by the Taliban, on the city of Kunduz in northern Afghanistan today. Such attacks on civilians…
Afghanistan
KABUL, 28 September 2015 - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) condemns yesterday’s suicide attack in Zarghun Shahr district in the south-eastern province of Paktika. On 27 September, a suicide attacker detonated an improvised explosive…
Afghanistan
ARG, KABUL: The Government of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan takes note of the reports on sexual abuse of children in the country, and has undertaken serious measures to enforce the law and prevent this iniquitous, inhuman…
Afghanistan
Afghanistan has been in a protracted conflict for 37 years, which has depleted natural and social resources. Despite over a decade of investments by the International Community the Country’s future is still tenuous. As per 2015…
Afghanistan
SC/12050 7526th Meeting (AM) Security Council Meetings Coverage As the threats faced by Afghanistan’s war-weary people did not all emanate from their own territory, they were entitled to international support, particularly from the region, in dealing with those pressing challenges,…
Afghanistan
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan, 7 September 2015 (IRIN) - When 30 Kalashnikov-toting men came to Mohammad Miakhil’s house demanding he donate a large sum of money and three tonnes of wheat to their Afghan government-aligned militia, he knew…
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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, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Mali, and Somalia. The update also reiterates key…
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By Frud Bezhan KABUL -- Only a month ago, Naimatullah was running a school for Afghan migrants in the Pakistani town of Sialkot -- a place he had called home for over two decades. But then one night,…
