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Students in grades 1 to 6 have restarted school in Herat, Afgahnistan, but girls in grades 7-12 have not been attending classes.

Afghanistan: Girls’ education must be a given, urges deputy UN chief

24 September 2021
Human Rights
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WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (centre) speaks to hospital staff at the Wazir Mohammad Akbar Khan National Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Afghanistan’s healthcare system on brink of collapse, as hunger hits 95 per cent of families

22 September 2021
Humanitarian Aid
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As schools slowly reopen in parts of Afghanistan, it is important to ensure that both girls and boys are able to return safely.

Afghanistan: ‘Palpable’ fear of ‘brutal and systemic repression’ of women grows

21 September 2021
Women
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Girls play volleyball at a school in Herat, Afghanistan, in 2016.

UNICEF stresses Afghan girls must not be excluded from school

17 September 2021
Human Rights
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Food is distributed by WFP in Herat in western Afghanistan in August 2021.

First humanitarian flight to Kabul marks 'turning point' in crisis: WFP 

14 September 2021
Humanitarian Aid
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Upwards of 30,000 people live in this displacement site on the outskirts of Herat.

$1 billion pledge a ‘quantum leap’ in commitment to Afghanistan: UN chief

13 September 2021
Humanitarian Aid
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Two Afghan women walk near an ancient mosque in western Herat province.

Support Afghans in their most perilous hour, urges UN’s Guterres

13 September 2021
Humanitarian Aid
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The UN continues to provide humanitarian aid in Afghanistan, despite the political upheaval.

Taliban response to protests increasingly violent, warns OHCHR

10 September 2021
Human Rights
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A screen in an interpreter's booth shows Malala Yousafzai addressing the UN Security Council meeting on Afghanistan, on 9 September, 2021.

Global community can still shape ‘new reality’ in Afghanistan

9 September 2021
Peace and Security
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A child at the Indira Gandhi Children's Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan. Since 14 August, hundreds of children have been separated from their families

UN warns of 'urgent imperative' to avoid acute Afghan food insecurity

7 September 2021
Humanitarian Aid
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