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UNICEF: 800,000 Women and Girls Are Malnourished in Afghanistan

21st March, 2023 · admin · Leave a comment

8am: The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Afghanistan has said that acute malnutrition among women and teenage girls in Afghanistan has increased by 50 percent. On Monday, UNICEF published a videotape of Ziva Moreira, nutrition consultant of UNICEF’s South Asia regional office, saying that the number of these mothers and teenage girls reaches more

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Posted in Afghan Women, UN-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Life under Taliban rule |
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UNSC Agrees on Conducting Assessment for Tackling Taliban, Members Diverge on Focus

17th March, 2023 · admin

Michael Hughes AOPNEWS March 17, 2023 The UN Security Council unanimously called for an independent assessment and recommendations for dealing with the Taliban’s failings, although key members differed on the approach – with Western powers and key allies stressing human rights violations while Russia and China called for focusing on humanitarian needs and the negative

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Posted in AOP Reports, Taliban, UN-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Taliban government failure |
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UN Launches $4.6B Appeal for Afghanistan, Warns of Drop in Funding

9th March, 2023 · admin

Akmal Dawi VOA News March 9, 2023 After weeks of dispiriting debates over whether to suspend or downgrade humanitarian operations in Afghanistan, the United Nations on Thursday launched a $4.6 billion appeal to assist more than 23 million of the most vulnerable Afghans this year. The humanitarian appeal was developed last year for release in

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Posted in Economic News, Taliban, UN-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Taliban government failure |
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UN: Taliban-Run Afghanistan Becomes World’s ‘Most Repressive’ Nation for Women

8th March, 2023 · admin

Ayaz Gul VOA News March 8, 2023 ISLAMABAD — The United Nations said Wednesday that Taliban restrictions on the rights of women and girls had “effectively trapped” most of them in their homes, turning Afghanistan into the “most repressive” country in the world for women. The U.N. statement marking International Women’s Day comes as female activists

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Posted in Afghan Children, Afghan Women, Education, Human Rights, Society, Taliban, UN-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Taliban war on women |
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700,000 Jobs Lost Since Late Regime Change in Afghanistan: UN Envoy

1st March, 2023 · admin

Khaama: Ramiz Alakbarov, the Deputy Special Representative of UNAMA on Tuesday in a press conference said that Afghanistan’s gross income has declined by 35 percent, and nearly 700,000 people have lost their jobs over the past 18 months. Mr. Alakbarov added that 65 percent of the people need humanitarian aid, and millions are on the

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Posted in Economic News, Taliban, UN-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Taliban government failure, unemployment |
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Afghan Refugees Protest in Islamabad Against UNHCR’s Failure to Review their Cases

27th February, 2023 · admin

Khaama: Dozens of Afghan migrants in Islamabad on Monday said they have protested for more than three weeks in front of the Society for Human Rights and Prisoners’ Aid (SHARP) Office, however, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has not paid attention to the living conditions of migrants in this country so far.

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Posted in Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Refugees and Migrants, UN-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Asylum |
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UN Pressure Unlikely to Change Taliban Approach to Media ‘Threat’

26th February, 2023 · admin

Michael Hughes: Even if the UN successfully intervenes to persuade the Taliban to release a Franco-Afghan reporter held captive in Afghanistan for nearly fifty days, it will not change Kabul’s crackdown because the radical movement understands the power of media. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) called upon the UN to take all measures possible to get

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Posted in Censorship, Media, Opinion/Editorial, Taliban, UN-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Press Freedom |
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ISIS threatening to attack China, India, Iran embassies in Afghanistan: UN

9th February, 2023 · admin

Bloomberg: The local affiliate of the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq, is attempting to “undermine the relationship between the Taliban and member states in the region,” according to United Nations report on the group’s activities. The report is expected to be discussed later Thursday at United Nations Security Council in New York. Click here

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Posted in China-Afghanistan Relations, India-Afghanistan Relations, Iran-Afghanistan Relations, ISIS/DAESH, Security, Taliban, UN-Afghanistan Relations |
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6 Million People in Afghanistan on Brink of Starvation, UN Warns

6th February, 2023 · admin

Khaama: This week, the UN warned all its member states that 70% of the people in Afghanistan are facing extreme hunger and need aid, while six million are facing the risk of famine. Martin Griffiths, the UN humanitarian chief, told the UN Security Council that Afghanistan faces multiple humanitarian, economic, climate, hunger and financial crises

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Posted in Economic News, UN-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Poverty, starvation, Taliban government failure |
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UN Says Its Aid Agencies Will Not Quit Afghanistan Despite Taliban Restrictions

3rd February, 2023 · admin

Akmal Dawi VOA News February 2, 2023 WASHINGTON — The United Nations says its humanitarians will not leave Afghanistan and will continue delivering lifesaving aid despite Taliban restrictions on Afghan women’s work for nongovernmental organizations. “The humanitarian community does not go on strike,” Martin Griffiths, a top U.N. official for humanitarian affairs, told representatives of member

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Posted in Afghan Women, Economic News, Taliban, UN-Afghanistan Relations |
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