Tagged: Afghanistan

A child holding an adult's hand looks on at a man opening a box on the floor labeled: End Polio Now.

Crossing the finish line for polio eradication in Afghanistan

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99.9 per cent We are almost there! We can see the finish line – the goal we have been pursuing for so long –  a world without polio. Over the last three decades, there has been a 99.9% decrease in wild poliovirus cases across the globe. How? The world came together. From parents to governments, community leaders to the United… Read more →←
Four ladies in traditional Afghan dresses talk to each other in a room

Saving lives in the mountains of northern Afghanistan

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This blog post is part of a content series published by UNICEF in the lead-up to the Global Conference on Primary Health Care, which will take place from 25-26 October in Astana, Kazakhstan. Learn more about the conference. Nestled in the mountains of northern Afghanistan, the village of Charkent is both beautiful and remote. Like much… Read more →←
Young women in white head coverings looking attentively upwards.

Building a better future for girls in Afghanistan

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In Shahrak e Muhajireen, a mountainous village in Afghanistan’s central highlands, 28-year old Surayaa Hussaini is passionate about transforming the lives of illiterate girls and women. Surayaa left Nili, the capital of Daikundi, to serve vulnerable girls and women in the village of Shahrak e Muhajireen, home to nearly 1,500 people. As… Read more →←
Woman with headscarf in Afghnaistan, looking down and reading with some women looking on behind her

Waiting for Afghanistan’s #MeToo moment

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I started my journey for women’s rights when I was in the 8th grade. Even back then people questioned my work when I encouraged my fellow girls to continue with their education. At the time most girls in Afghanistan were not allowed to study beyond grade six. Some people looked with disdain at me and my family, they hurled abuse at us.… Read more →←
Un groupe de jeunes enfants, vêtus de bleu, se tient à côté d'une maison, avec les montagnes en toile de fond

Bringing learning to life for Afghan girls

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Belqees always dreamt of going to school. “My friends would come back to the village and talk about school, what they had been doing,” the 16-year old says. “I felt like, they are my friends, why am I behind?” At her home, in a remote village in Daykundi, a province in Afghanistan’s central highlands, Belqees explains how she… Read more →←
Five boys crammed into a car trunk.

What would you do to escape ISIS and the Taliban?

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I recently met five boys who, as part of their journey out of Afghanistan, crammed into the trunk of a compact car. I encountered them at a refugee camp in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and travelled with them as they made their way deeper into Europe. On assignment for UNICEF, I was documenting the experience of children and… Read more →←
On 10 September, children, women and men who have fled their homes amid the ongoing refugee and migrant crisis walk near the town of Gevgelija.

Child refugees and migrants are children first

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Jasamin (3) from Afghanistan is one of the tens of thousands of refugee and migrant children on the move to Europe. I first caught sight of her moments after she crossed the border from Greece into the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, with her parents and Mohamed, her 19-month-old brother. Like the hundreds of children crossing the… Read more →←
An woman holds her two-days-old son's hand while being hospitalized after having the baby.

Renewing the promise for maternal and child survival in Afghanistan

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Dr. Malalai Naziri, a Maternal and Child Health Officer in Afghanistan, has seen the difference that cost-effective, high-impact interventions can make to reduce maternal mortality, as well as newborn, infant, and child mortality. She recently told me about a young 22-year-old mother from Logar province in eastern Afghanistan, whose… Read more →←
amiyan, Afghanistan: children make a long journey to continue their education.

Getting children out of armed forces in Afghanistan

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The day I left Afghanistan in November, a suicide bomber killed a man who worked at the British embassy in Kabul. I had passed by the site of the explosion just a few minutes before it happened. Afghanistan is a country with a rich history and wonderful people, but it has been embroiled in conflict for decades, affecting the lives of… Read more →←

Counting sheep — children’s video workshop in Bamiyan

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In September, I travelled to the Ahangaran Valley in the Bamiyan province of central Afghanistan to work with local children as they produced videos about their school, their lives, and their dreams for the future. Bamiyan made headlines back in 2001 when the Taliban destroyed the ancient Bamiyan Buddha statues that had been etched into… Read more →←

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