Climate change making it difficult for citizens to access drinking water
KABUL (SW) – The Office of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has stated that climate change has had negative effects on Afghanistan’s water
Category: HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
Economic sanctions hurting businesses
KABUL (SW) – A number of businessmen say that the imposition of economic sanctions on Afghanistan and restrictions on exports and imports have hurt their
20 million people faced with hunger, says WFP
KABUL (SW) – The World Food Program has expressed concern about the rising poverty level in Afghanistan and has said that now about 20 million
Conditions not in place to recognize the de fecto authorities, says Niklasson
MONITORING (SW) – Tomas Niklasson, EU Special Envoy for Afghanistan, has said conditions are not in place to allow for recognition by the international community of
Afghans in Iran faced with grim choices amid harsh restrictions
KABUL (SW) – A number of Afghan refugees in Iran complain that not only do they not have access to the basic necessities of life,
UNAMA issues report on corporal punishments and death penalty
MONITORING (SW) – The Office of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan has said in a fresh report titled “Corporal Punishment and the Death Penalty
“Gender discrimination has been institutionalized in Afghanistan”
MONITORING (SW) – The United Nations special rapporteurs, in a report referring to the Islamic Emirate’s promise to start women’s education and work without providing
Afghanistan is facing a high levels of “acute” food insecurity
MONITORING (SW) – Afghanistan is facing a high levels of “acute” food insecurity, warned the Food and Agriculture Organisation’s senior economist. As Afghanistan humanitarian crisis continues
UN Secretary General presses the Islamic Emirate on women’s rights
MONITORING (SW) – A closed-door summit on Afghanistan ended Tuesday in Qatar without any formal acknowledgment of the Taliban-controlled government there, though the United Nations’
NAI calls for honoring the Press Freedom Day in Afghanistan
KABUL (SW) – A local organization supporting independent media in Afghanistan, NAI has called for honoring the Press Freedom Day in Afghanistan as a sign
UNHCR promises residential units for cave dwellers in Bamyan
BAMYAN (SW) – Gillian Triggs, the deputy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, has traveled to Bamyan at the head of a high-ranking delegation
Crucial meeting in Doha on the future of Afghanistan
KABUL (SW) – The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has renewed a call for Afghanistan’s Taliban to remove curbs on women’s rights to work and education
