Five different types of slavery are especially prolific in the country. These are Forced Labor, Child Slavery, Forced and Early Marriage, Bonded Slavery and Human Trafficking
UNICEF is launching programs through nutrition counseling for mothers, focusing on when and how to breastfeed, so that children have the best possible start in life
Just over 67 percent of births are attended by a skilled health professional, UNICEF said.
Nearly 15 percent experience depression, UNICEF said.
Factors such as economic poverty, conflicts, crises and the COVID pandemic have forced millions of children to do hard labor around the world.
The Islamic Emirate has however stated in the past that the issue of education of girls and women is an internal matter and countries should not...
Tens of thousands of children in Afghanistan remain affected by ongoing flash floods, especially in the north and west, the U.N. children’s agency, UNICEF, said Monday....
The head of UNICEF in Afghanistan, Fran Equiza, held a farewell meeting with the deputy foreign minister Shir Mohammad Abbas Stanakzai this week as his two-year...
Local officials say a water supply project in Nangarhar province has been put into operation at a cost of 42 million afghanis. This project has been...
One hundred days after earthquakes struck western Afghanistan, the United Nations’ children agency on Monday called for greater support for over 96,000 children affected by the...
The European Union has allocated $27 million to the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) to improve and upgrade the learning environments for an estimated...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says that more than 90 percent of the victims of this week’s earthquakes in Herat province are women and children....
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s (IEA) public health minister, Dr Qalandar Ibaad, has officially launched the newly established call center for emergencies. The National Emergency Operations...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has announced that Afghanistan is one of the most weapons-contaminated countries in the world with all kinds of weapons, mines...
In the first five months of this year, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) provided life saving treatment to 273,000 children with severe acute malnutrition in...
The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) on Thursday said 16 million children in Afghanistan need support and humanitarian assistance. Fran Equiza, UNICEF representative in...
The U.N. children’s agency said on Thursday it was following up with Afghanistan’s Islamic Emirate officials over whether international organizations would be excluded from education projects,...
United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) in Afghanistan on Thursday said it is facing a critical funding gap for ready-to-use-food for severely malnourished children in...
Mullah Mohammad Abbas Akhund, the Minister of Disaster Management, said at a meeting with UNICEF’s head in Kabul that the UN agency must not politicize its...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has announced that Afghanistan needs immediate humanitarian aid. UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Omar Abdi on Monday said that Afghanistan is...
