Afghanistan remains one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters: HRW

Afghanistan has largely disappeared from the media, but it remains one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters.

Afghanistan still a grave humanitarian crisis, senior aid official says

New York: Climate change and the economic downturn continue to fuel the crisis in Afghanistan, and there have been no “encouraging developments” towards getting girls back into classrooms, a senior UN official said on Tuesday.

‘Major’ humanitarian crisis looms in Afghanistan, as UN convenes fundraising conference

New York: A major humanitarian crisis is looming in Afghanistan, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, warned again on Friday, amid ongoing uncertainty about the situation for vulnerable Afghans seeking shelter across the country's borders. To address the crisis, the UN announced a major fundraising conference to take place in Geneva on 13 September.