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Afghanistan: New restrictions on women nationals working for UN, put aid efforts at risk

·September 12, 2025·1 min read

These measures are putting life-saving humanitarian assistance and other essential services for hundreds of thousands of people affected by a recent deadly earthquake at risk, the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) warned in a statement. On Sunday, the de facto security forces prevented women Afghan staff members and contractors...

Gaza: Looming offensive and restrictions on humanitarians

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·August 20, 2025·1 min read

In the past 24 hours in Gaza, there have been more reports of casualties in shootings along aid convoy routes, where desperate crowds of civilians often wait to take supplies from the back of trucks. Meanwhile, hostilities between Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups are also escalating. In the past...

Afghanistan: Taliban restrictions on women’s rights intensify

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·May 4, 2025·1 min read

The mission continued to receive reports that Afghan women are being denied the opportunity to join the workforce, are unable to access services without a male relative while girls are still deprived of their right to education. Since the Taliban took over the country from the democratically-elected Government in August...

Aid restrictions and dismantling UNRWA will compound Gazans’ suffering

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·November 5, 2024·3 min read

The Israeli Parliament, known as the Knesset, recently approved two laws banning UNRWA from operating in its territory and prohibiting officials from having any contact with the agency. Israel has officially informed the President of the UN General Assembly of the adoption of the new legislation. The letter says all...

Fuel restrictions curtail Gaza aid efforts amid attacks on UN schools and evacuation plans for Al-Shifa Hospital

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·November 19, 2023·5 min read

Fuel deliveries for aid operations in the enclave, home to 2.3 million Palestinians, have been largely prohibited since Hamas’ attack on Israel on 7 October left at least 1,200 dead and 240 taken hostage. This has severely hampered aid efforts and services to provide water and electricity, UN agencies said....

UN and Red Cross call for restrictions on autonomous weapon systems to protect humanity

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·October 5, 2023·3 min read

“We call on world leaders to launch negotiations of a new legally binding instrument to set clear prohibitions and restrictions on autonomous weapon systems and to conclude such negotiations by 2026,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres and ICRC President Mirjana Spoljaric said on Thursday. “In the current security landscape, setting clear...

Afghanistan: UN predicts restrictions on women’s rights will worsen economic catastrophe

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·April 24, 2023·3 min read

The Afghanistan Socio-Economic Outlook 2023, released by the UN Development Programme (UNDP), provides an overview of the fallout resulting from the takeover of Afghanistan by its present-day de facto rulers, the Taliban, in August 2021. Immediately after the Taliban assumed power, the Afghan economy collapsed, accelerating Afghanistan’s decade-long slide into...

‘Unfathomable restrictions’ on women’s rights risk destabilizing Afghanistan

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·December 27, 2022·1 min read

“No country can develop – indeed survive – socially and economically with half its population excluded”, said the High Commissioner for Human Rights. “These unfathomable restrictions placed on women and girls will not only increase the suffering of all Afghans but, I fear, pose a risk beyond Afghanistan’s borders”. He...