Publisher

UNFPA Afghanistan

Publication date

Oct 2023

Resources

UNFPA Afghanistan Situation Report (Herat Province) #1: 07-08 October 2023

1

Publisher

UNFPA Afghanistan

Publication date

Oct 2023

Resources

UNFPA Afghanistan Situation Report (Herat Province) #2: 09-10 October 2023

1

Video

Helping earthquake-impacted women in Afghanistan

calendar_today11 October 2023

Helping earthquake-impacted women in Afghanistan

Helping earthquake-impacted women in Afghanistan

An estimated 3,000 women of reproductive age are affected by Saturday’s earthquake in Afghanistan.

Jaime Nadal, UNFPA Afghanistan representative, describes from Herat how UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—is providing urgent maternal and reproductive health care.

Stay up to date on our ongoing humanitarian response here.

News

Across Afghanistan, resourceful midwives brave multiple barriers to ensure maternal health and safe births

calendar_today15 August 2023

Midwife Durdana Samandar says Ms. Husun could have experienced serious complications had she insisted on walking four hours to go back home to deliver her baby. © UNFPA Afghanistan/Ehsanullah Popal
1

Statement

Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on the Taliban’s decision to ban Afghan women from working with the United Nations

calendar_today06 April 2023

1

News

UNFPA midwives on call to ensure safe births in Afghanistan’s most remote villages

calendar_today16 March 2023

Midwife Suhila Rasuli on her way to visit a pregnant woman in a remote area of Nimroz province, Afghanistan. © Naqibullah Rahimi/MOVE Afghanistan
1

Statement

Taliban banning women from higher education and from working with humanitarian organizations

calendar_today26 December 2022

1

Statement

Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee on Afghanistan, Women’s participation in aid delivery must continue

calendar_today28 December 2022

1

News

“Giving up is not an option”: Hope for Afghans forced out of school

calendar_today13 September 2022

Mursal, 17, would normally be in the 12th grade. She dreams of becoming a doctor, but her education has been indefinitely postponed. © UNFPA Afghanistan
1

Video

Girls in Afghanistan want to go back to school

calendar_today13 September 2022

Girls in Afghanistan want to go back to school

Girls in Afghanistan want to go back to school

One year after the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, 17-year-old Mursal is still in disbelief that she can’t go back to school.

“It’s not right that they’re ordering us to hide our faces and stop going to school. I hope that young girls will not give up,” she says.

See how Mursal is giving back to her community with UNFPA’s help.