Rapports

Kabul, Afghanistan, February 15, 2022 — Six months since the shift in power in Afghanistan, humanitarian needs across the country have skyrocketed. 97 per cent of the population is expected to be living well below the…

Survey by Save the Children finds a third of families have lost their entire household income since August. 18% of families have sent children out to work, with more than one million children thought to be working. Some…

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

In a 9 February 2022 hearing before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Crisis Group’s Senior Afghanistan Consultant Graeme Smith outlined two long-term ways the U.S. can mitigate Afghanistan’s humanitarian and economic crises in the…

Due to the impacts of the ongoing conflict, Afghanistan’s child population is at high risk of being born with or acquiring a primary or secondary disability. According to a recent estimate, up to 17% of Afghanistan’s children…

Afghanistan is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change: rising temperatures, changing precipitation patterns and increasingly frequent extreme weather events. Currently, Afghanistan is experiencing its worst drought in 27 years, which, compounded with COVID-19 and…

Human Rights Council Forty-ninth session 28 February–1 April 2022 Agenda items 2 and 10 Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General Technical assistance and…

Highlights • The unprecedented surges of COVID-19 infection in May and June 2021 as well as subsequent waves in many countries have created dire humanitarian situations in the region, continuously pressuring already overburdened healthcare systems and creating…

SECURITY COUNCIL 8962ND MEETING (AM) SC/14788 Efforts must better mitigate the unintended negative impact of sanctions and curtail unilateral coercive measures that continue to negatively affect the very populations they are meant to protect, delegates told the Security Council…

Highlights UNICEF provided Humanitarian Cash Transfers (HCT) to 1,165 households (8,155 people including 4,902 children) in Samangan province, targeting districts severely affected by drought. 90 mobile health and nutrition teams continue to provide critical lifesaving support in underserved…