UN Urges Better Response as Two Million Afghanis Returned Home This Year

UN urges better response as two million Afghanis returned home this year

The UN Children's Fund, UNICEF, welcomes reports that two million Afghanis, including half-a-million children, returned home to Afghanistan this year, but warns of critical challenges in the country and inherent in society, especially for girls. Read all

"Meanwhile in Afghanistan...", by Norah Niland. - United Against Inhumanity

Photo: One-third of the Afghanistan population do not get enough food to live healthy and another third hover around the borderline of “food insecurity”. Source: UNICEF In a time of distressing headlines, and searing images of distraught people in brutal warzones facing death, displacement or diminishing prospects of survival, the situation of Afghans is often dismissed, ignored or forgotten.  Indeed, their suffering, after four-plus decades of …

UNICEF reports over 2 million migrants returned to Afghanistan so far this year

More than two million migrants, including approximately 500,000 children, have returned to Afghanistan from Iran, Pakistan, and several Central Asian countries so far this year, UNICEF announced following a visit by Ted Chaiban, Deputy Executive Director for Humanitarian Action and Supply Operations. Chaiban, who recently completed his fourth visit to Afghanistan, highlighted the scale of returns, noting that on July 4 alone, over 50,000 individ…