KABUL (SW): Latest findings of the United Nations Population Fund revealed on Sunday that Afghanistan remains one of the top countries in the world severely lacking capacity to cope with hazardous events.
The report: www. unfpa.org/swop “State of World Population 2015” that has been compiled with observations made during the ongoing year, further noted that some 2.2 million citizens in Afghanistan are faced with acute shortage of food. “Shelter from the Storm”; a transformative agenda for women and girls in a crisis-prone world” is the theme for this year’s report.
It stated some two million inhabitants of Afghanistan are facing diseases like measles and others.
The UNFPA report has also compiled that some 0.85 million citizens have been displaced by war and natural disasters since 2014. The report further noted that 42 percent of the Internally Displaced Person (IDPs) in Afghanistan is female.
UNFPA’s Deputy Country Representative Dr. Wilfred Ochan said on the occasion that each year up to one million people, with some 240, 000 of them women, get displaced by wars and natural disasters. He highlighted the basic health and maternity needs of these vulnerable girls and women.
The report indicated that natural disasters claimed around 900 lives in the country this year.
Dr. Wilfred feared that if no attention was paid towards the state of the IDPs, their number would swell by 25 percent (0.25 million more). The UNFPA officials said that the $ 5.4 million have been earmarked to address the basic human rights in the country.
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