Afghanistan
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Middle East
Displacement, humanitarian needs surging inside Afghanistan and across region
Conflict last year had forced more than 700,000 Afghans to leave their homes and added to the 5.5 million people…
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Asia Pacific
Six women’s rights activists still missing in Afghanistan
The UN human rights office OHCHR, has said it is very alarmed over the continued disappearance of six people who…
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Asia Pacific
‘We cannot abandon the people of Afghanistan’ Guterres tells Security Council
With Afghanistan “hanging by a thread” six months after the Taliban takeover, the world cannot abandon the country now –…
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Asia Pacific
Afghanistan: 500,000 jobs lost since Taliban takeover
More than half a million people have lost or been pushed out of their jobs in Afghanistan since the Taliban…
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Middle East
Experts decry measures to ‘steadily erase’ Afghan women and girls from public life
Taliban leaders in Afghanistan are institutionalizing large scale and systematic gender-based discrimination and violence against women and girls, independent UN…
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Asia Pacific
UN chief: ‘We are in a race against time to help the Afghan people’
Describing a “nightmare unfolding in Afghanistan”, the United Nations’ Secretary-General, António Guterres, warned on Thursday that the world is “in a race against time to…
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Asia Pacific
Eight Afghan students die in explosion outside school
The use of explosives that lie dormant, particularly in populated areas, is “a persistent and growing threat to children and…
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Afghanistan: UN launches largest single country aid appeal ever
The UN and partners launched a more than $5 billion funding appeal for Afghanistan on Tuesday, in the hope of…
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Asia Pacific
Harsh winter fuels ongoing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan
UN humanitarians warned on Tuesday that a harsh winter in Afghanistan is aggravating already severe conditions faced by millions across…
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Pakistan: Smartcard registration drive for Afghan refugees ends
The first drive to verify data relating to around 1.4 million Afghan refugees on the move over past decade in…
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