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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

Ghor, Afghanistan

Protecting and improving healthcare

With support from UNICEF, primary health centre in Shuturkhan village in Ghor, provides essential health and nutrition services to over 3,000 residents

Ibrahim

20 February 2023

Acute respiratory infections double among Afghan children

Amidst the worst winter in years, UNICEF is providing a lifeline to the vulnerable by heating health facilities and prepositioning medicine

30 January 2023

Afghanistan: UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Omar Abdi's remarks at UN Press Briefing

25 December 2022

Restricting female humanitarians from working and female students from access to education in Afghanistan is a ‘blatant violation of fundamental human rights’

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell

Parwana

12 December 2022

Parwana, one year on

One year ago, she was so severely malnourished, I feared she wouldn’t make it. Today, Parwana skips, giggles and nags her mum to get her to school on time.

Students enjoy washing their hands at the new facility in their school.

02 December 2022

How clean hands and healthy tummies lead to full attendance

Restoring the rights and dignity of students and teachers through new sanitation and water systems in Afghanistan

children from Mazar, in the north of Afghanistan

02 December 2022

This new 24-hour clinic is a prescription for good health

With support from UNICEF, nurses work a new night shift to provide relief and reassurance for underserved mothers and infants

Hamed

02 December 2022

Hamed’s journey: 11 days of uncertainty, fear and regret

One 15-year-old journey's to Iran and back, in search of a better life