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Ten-month-old Adela flashes a wide smile

From crisis to care

UNICEF prepares health facilities in Afghanistan to treat increasing cases of acute watery diarrhoea with medicines and oral rehydration points

Kamaluddin helps6-year-old Asra wash her hands at their home.

Toilets close to home, children far from illness

UNICEF is working with communities to end open defecation, helping build or improve toilets at home, and teaching people when and how to wash their hands

Naghma

One year on, three brighter smiles

After Afghanistan’s destructive earthquake a year ago, UNICEF is helping communities rebuild with new classrooms and child-friendly spaces

4 month old Farahnaz's height is measured at the UNICEF-supported provincial hospital

Four steps to deliver results for malnourished children

With 1 in 5 children under five living in urban areas of Afghanistan, UNICEF pioneers initiative to tackle malnutrition with the European Union

father Sayed Ali and his daughter Atifa

Afghanistan - A Children’s Crisis: UNICEF Afghanistan Representative Fran Equiza's remarks at the Daily Press Briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General

Nurse Sadia

A female health worker’s service despite countless challenge

Amidst increasing restrictions on women's rights in Afghanistan, UNICEF supports salaries for health workers like Sadia, so she can continue caring for chil

Taliban’s decision to ban Afghan women from working with the United Nations will cost children’s lives

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell

A girl in Afghanistan

Girls dispirited as their high schools remain closed

As the academic year began in March, girls hoped to return to class with their brothers. But for the second year in a row, secondary schools remained closed

A girl sits at her home in Kabul.

UNICEF calls on de facto authorities to allow girls to return to secondary school in Afghanistan immediately

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on the start of the new school year in Afghanistan

Children at the Torkham border between Afghanistan and Pakistan run past parked trucks, smuggling goods to sell back home.

Short but perilous: Children’s smuggling journey

Hiding under moving trucks, children risk their lives smuggling goods – and themselves – across the Torkham border between Afghanistan and Pakistan