News Monitor
The humanitarian outlook remains dire due to economic hardship and climate shocks. More than half the population requires humanitarian support, making it the world's second-largest humanitarian crisis.
The medical needs in Afghanistan are huge, and more women Afghan medical staff need to be trained to address them. For this to happen, women need to have access to education.
In September, the reported death rate was 6.4 per cent among children due to malnutrition and medical complications. The situation is expected to deteriorate further with the onset of winter.
In September, the reported death rate was 6.4 per cent among children due to malnutrition and medical complications. The situation is expected to deteriorate further with the onset of winter.
Of the women surveyed in a new analysis, 98% felt they had negligible influence on decision-making in their communities or homes, with enduring impacts on mental health and educational attainment.
While most displacements in recent decades have been due to conflict, in 2022 climate disasters became the main reason people fled their homes and moved to other areas within the country.
In the Asia-Pacific region, the total number of people within UNHCR's mandate remained relatively constant from 2014 to 2020 averaging around 9.4 million. However, it reached 15.7 million by end-2023.
The number of reported casualties has increased to 58. Across all affected provinces, households are in immediate need of food, shelter, health and WASH services, including clean drinking water.
UNHCR is supporting aid efforts in Afghanistan after Monday’s rainstorms and heavy flooding in Central and Eastern regions left at least 40 people dead, more than 340 injured and many more displaced.
At least 32 million doses have already been delivered to 13 countries as part of the initiative and another 10 million doses set to be shipped by the end of July.
About 1.36 million people - including an estimated 858,000 children - live in Nangarhar, Kunar and Laghman provinces hit by storms just two months after heavy rainfall in northeast killed 350 people.
To honour 1,000 days of women and girls’ resistance, Malala Fund is announcing more than $1.5 million in new funding to 13 organisations working to keep girls learning.
"I am deeply shocked by Sunday’s forced eviction of about 6,000 IDPs," said NRC's Turner, urging authorities to immediately halt evictions until longer-term solutions for relocation are identified.
About 6.5 million children will face crisis or emergency levels of hunger as Afghanistan feels the impacts of floods, long-term effects of drought and the return of Afghans from Pakistan and Iran.
Devastating floods in north-eastern and north-western regions of Afghanistan over the past two weeks, hitting more than 80,000 people, are likely to worsen already critical levels of food insecurity.
Extreme weather poses a serious risk to all children in Afghanistan whose families or communities rely on farming to survive. This equates to nearly 13.2 million children, says Save the Children.
More than half of Afghanistan - 25 of 34 provinces - has been affected, with Baghlan alone suffering upwards of 200 fatalities so far. Communities were already struggling to cope before this disaster.
To date, 180 people have been confirmed killed and 242 injured, with 8,975 homes destroyed or damaged. Among the most affected districts are Burka and Baghlani Jadid in Baghlan Province.