"AFGHANISTAN"

The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Virginia Gamba, said, “Without compliance by parties to conflict to allow safe, full, and unhindered access for timely delivery of humanitarian assistance, children’s survival, well-being, and development are in jeopardy and our calls are mere echoes in this chamber.” UNIFEED

To mitigate climate shocks and improve food security, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) over the last two years has supported communities in Afghanistan through cash-for-work programmes in building water management infrastructures. FAO

Secretary-General António Guterres said, “The women of my generation did not win the fight for their rights, only to see their daughters and granddaughters fight the same battles.” UNIFEED

The number of children who died before their fifth birthday has reached a historic low, dropping to 4.9 million in 2022, according to the latest estimates released today by the United Nations Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME). UNICEF

On the margins of the 68th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, the former Deputy Speaker of the Afghan Parliament, Fawzia Koofi, said the Taliban is denying young women the right to education “under the name of Islam,” but in reality, it is “in contradiction with Islamic principles.” UNIFEED

Kanni Wignaraja, Director of the Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific of the UN Development Program said that in Afghanistan “there have been a lot of restrictions on women's work. At the same time, curiously, there have been some easing of restrictions on women working in certain fields.” UNIFEED

The UN Special Representative for Afghanistan, Roza Otunbayeva, said, “It is true that day-to-day security has improved for millions of people since the Taliban takeover, but this has come at an enormous cost.” UNIFEED

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) issued a statement condemning the public executions of three people at sports stadiums in Afghanistan in the past week. OHCHR

Ahead of a Security Council meeting on Afghanistan, the Women, Peace, and Security Shared Commitments Group stated that sustainable peace, stability, and development in the country “can only be achieved if there is an inclusive political process underpinned by respect for the rule of law and the human rights of all Afghan people.” UNIFEED

Secretary-General António Guterres said, “we want an Afghanistan in peace, peace with itself and peace with its neighbours, able to assume the commitments and international obligations of a sovereign state,” but cautioned that “there is an essential set of questions in which we are stuck.” MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS QATAR