Tag:Afghanistan

Restrictions on education and freedoms, combined with chronic poverty and lack of future opportunities, have fuelled high levels of distress.

While global cases have fallen dramatically over decades of eradication efforts, the final stages are proving the most challenging.

Humanitarian organisations emphasise that timely funding and sustained access are essential to reverse the trend.

UNESCO says it will keep seeking every possible avenue to support learning while pressing for the restrictions to be lifted.

The combination of funding cuts, mass returns, climate shocks, high food prices has left millions of Afghans facing preventable hunger and illness.

Timely community action and strengthened health services will determine how many more young lives are placed at risk before cooler weather arrives, health workers say.

In a sobering assessment released this week, the United Nations has painted a complex portrait of Afghanistan under Taliban governance, where a dramatic increase in security incidents coincides with fragile stability, devastating cross-border violence with Pakistan, and a deepening humanitarian and human rights crisis.