The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has launched the Regional Refugee Response Plan for the Afghanistan Situation to support 7.9 million people, including 5.2 million Afghans, refugees, and their local hosts across the region. The UNHCR envisages a worst-case scenario of 500,000 Afghan refugees arriving in neighboring countries by the end of the year, which has necessitated the response plan. The worsening security situation across Afghanistan following foreign troop withdrawal and Taliban advances has forced an estimated 270,000 people from their homes since January, bringing the total number of internally displaced people to more than 3.5 million. The…
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Annual Polio Vaccination Campaign in Afghanistan starts under Taliban. According to the health ministry, the Taliban regime in Afghanistan has began the yearly polio immunization program, which aims to target more than nine million children under the age of five. Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan are the last nations in the world with endemic polio, an incurable and highly infectious illness that can cause devastating paralysis – and even death – in young children. Polio has been largely eradicated worldwide thanks to a decades-long immunization campaign. Yet, insecurity, inhospitable terrain, mass displacement, and fears of outside involvement have impeded mass immunization…
The foreign ministers of Iran and Uzbekistan met to discuss the current situation in Afghanistan and emphasized the importance of working together with Afghanistan’s other neighbors to improve the country’s stability. Uzbekistan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Baxtiyor Saidov, recently made a trip to Iran for the purpose of meeting with authorities from that nation, including his Iranian counterpart, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian. According to a statement released by the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, both parties have expressed a desire to work together to promote peace and stability in Afghanistan. According to the statement, some of the topics that were brought up…
The Afghan caretaker government has called on the United Nations (UN) to give the seat of Afghanistan to its designated ambassador. The seat for Afghanistan in the UN has been held by the former deputy ambassador to the UN who is currently the chargé d’affaires of the Afghanistan Permanent Mission to the UN. The Afghan caretaker government is urging the UN to rectify this situation, as it has been more than 19 months since the Islamic Emirate came to power. We understand the significance of this issue and its impact on the global political landscape. As a result, we have…
As a result of the Taliban’s policy of preventing Afghan Girls from obtaining the education of any kind, there has been an increase in the number of students being married off to support their families financially. The young Afghan girls now face a very different kind of life ahead of them, one that will be filled with the tedium of domestic labor, boredom, and isolation, none of which they will be able to change. The lives of Afghan teenage girls have been dominated by conflict and violence their entire lives. Since the education ban was implemented, there has been a…