As many as 875,000 children in Afghanistan are at risk of severe wasting, the United Nations agency for children said on Tuesday. Sam Mort, chief of...
November 20 coincides with International Children’s Day, which came about in 1954 to improve the plight of children around the world. The United Nations Children’s Fund...
South Korea and Denmark have contributed a combined $10 million to the education sector in Afghanistan, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund. “South Korea’s $5...
Local sources in Kunduz province say that the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has provided education for more than five thousand children in this province. Ahmad...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced on Sunday that it has created 140 community-based educational classes for children in Khost and Paktika provinces. UNICEF said...
The United Nations children’s agency said on Friday 121 of those who were killed in the 6.1-magnitude earthquake in Afghanistan this week were children. Mohamed Ayoya,...
The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has once again called on the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) to open the doors of schools to...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has expressed concern about the continued closure of secondary and high schools for girls in Afghanistan, saying “education should not...
Mohamed Ag Ayoya, UNICEF Representative in Afghanistan, on Wednesday said the organization has confirmation that a total 20 children were killed during airstrikes carried out by...
UNICEF said it is deeply saddened by the killing of five children, one girl and four boys, when an explosive remnant of war (ERW) detonated on...
The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF are holding a high-level meeting in Qatari capital Doha on interim priorities for the health sector in Afghanistan over...
Marking the first day of the Persian New Year, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Monday called on Afghan families to send their children to...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has announced that 15 percent of aid has so far been collected following a $2 billion request for assistance to...
As part of efforts to ensure all school-age girls and boys in Afghanistan go to school and learn, UNICEF and partners are providing emergency cash support...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said Friday that Afghanistan has witnessed the highest number of child casualties since 2005. In a statement issued on Friday,...
United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) said Sunday that it has tasked mobile health teams to provide health services to Afghan women and children across...
UNICEF launched its largest ever single-country appeal on Tuesday to urgently respond to the humanitarian needs of over 24 million people in Afghanistan, half of whom...
A Polio vaccination drive, started in western provinces of Afghanistan, is aimed at inoculating more than 1.3 million children, health officials said Sunday. Mohammad Asif Kabir,...
The United Nations children’s agency said it was planning to set up a system to directly fund Afghan teachers, after the international community placed a freeze...
A nation-wide polio vaccination campaign will resume in Afghanistan next month, UNICEF announced Monday. In a statement issued by the organization, the World Health Organization and...