The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has said it was alarmed at the sudden increase in the number of Afghans returning from Iran, which the agency attributed to “induced” pressure by authorities there.
The Government of Iran has granted the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) access to Afghan detainees threatened with deportation, the agency announced in Geneva today.
An explosion rocked a building near Jalalabad city, killing several people, leaving dozens of others injured and over 100 homes destroyed, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) reported today.
The head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Lakhdar Brahimi, has toured Bamiyan, a poverty-hit region where the international community seeks to expand its outreach, a UNAMA spokesman reported today.
With the number of Afghans returning from Pakistan decreasing, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today announced plans to cut back its operations in the country.
One of the best ways to secure a more promising future for war-ravaged Afghanistan is through a major investment in its youth, the United Nations envoy for war-affected children said today in New York.
The first attack against United Nations premises in Afghanistan since last year's Bonn Agreement paved the way for an expanded international presence in the country has prompted local authorities to post armed guards outside all UN premises in Kandahar, a spokesman for the world body reported today.
The United Nations refugee agency today said it was rushing to provide shelter for up to 400,000 returnees in rural Afghanistan before the onset of winter weather, expected about three months from now.
Damage to crops in Afghanistan has been minimized thanks to an $800,000 United Nations initiative to battle the country's worst locust plague in three decades, according to the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), which ran the effort.
