The information presented below shows UNHCR’s key activities to UNHCR’s protection and humanitarian response in Afghanistan in 2024.

Arrest and Detention/Flow Monitoring, 15 Sep 2023 to 30 Nov 2024

This dashboard provides a weekly update on UNHCR-assisted Afghan nationals returning from Pakistan. It details both voluntary repatriation as well as forced returns. It categorizes the total numbers o...

The livelihood approach in Afghanistan is designed to enhance self-reliance, socio-economic inclusion, and sustainable integration of forcibly displaced, returnees and their host communities in the Pr...

The need for shelter assistance continues to be widely reported across Afghanistan, driven by high numbers of returns, natural crises including earthquakes and floods, and compounded by soaring levels...

Cash-Based Interventions (CBIs) at UNHCR play a pivotal role in delivering effective and targeted assistance to displaced populations. By providing financial support directly to beneficiaries, CBIs em...

The 2024 Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan (HNRP) for Afghanistan estimates that eight million people will be in need of education assistance within the same year, with natural disasters contributi...

The 2024 HNRP estimates that 17.9 million people in Afghanistan require health assistance in the same year, within a context characterised by a fragile and under-resourced healthcare system, fraught b...

Background: Since the Taliban takeover in August 2021, the country’s 21.4 million women and girls have faced a systematic erosion of their fundamental human rights, including social, economic, and pol...

UNHCR Bangladesh - Operational Update September 2024