Statement by Neil Turner, the Norwegian Refugee Council's Country Director, on the one-year mark of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan: "We have witnessed shocking levels of poverty and suffering in...
NRC's briefing note "Afghanistan at a Precipice" provides a humanitarian overview of the needs and challenges in Afghanistan one year since the Taliban takeover of the country. For ordinary Afghans,...
Denial of Women’s Rights, Media Crackdown, and Retaliatory Killings Amid Mass Hunger (New York) – The Taliban have broken multiple pledges to respect human rights and women’s rights since taking over...
Executive summary In 2021, the Covid-19 pandemic continued to overlay other pre-existing and emerging crisis risks, driving need and complicating response. Following the rapid rise in demand for...
Current major event Consultative Meeting on Typhoid Fever Surveillance and Vaccine Introduction in the Eastern Mediterranean Region WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (EMR) conducted a...
Current major event Monkeypox: Public Health Emergency of International Concern On Saturday 23 July 2022, WHO Director-General determined that the ongoing multi-country outbreak of monkeypox...
Paktika, Afghanistan – Minaz Bibi had just finished a midwifery course and was waiting for her deployment to a community health center when she received an unexpected call to report for an emergency...
INTRODUCTION The Rohingya crisis has illuminated a failure on the part of the global community to stop or prevent the well-documented sustained persecution of an ethnic and religious minority—or to...
Key Figures 1,000 people killed, including 250 children; 3,000 people injured, including 600 children. At least 70% of houses in the most impacted areas are damaged or destroyed. UNHCR has assisted...
The GHO 2022, launched on 2 December 2021, required $41 billion to assist 194 million of the 296 million people in need in 69 countries. Since then, needs and requirements have grown to $46.7 B to...