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Afghanistan
Policies implemented following the Taliban take over in mid-August 2021 coupled with developments such as drought and earthquakes have severely exacerbated challenges for aid agencies in Afghanistan.
University lecturer detained in Kabul city
20 July 2024: In Pol-e-Sorkh neighbourhood, Kabul city, the head of the economics faculty at Aburayhan University, was detained by Taliban intelligence. Photos show the lecturer had been beaten. He was threatened with arrest by the Taliban in the past on accusations of speaking to foreign media. Source: Kabul Now. Return to Afghanistan home page. more
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Afghanistan
May 2024
SHCC 2023 Factsheet
Afghanistan
May 2023
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Afghanistan
May 2022
2021 SHCC Factsheet
Afghanistan
12 October 2021
Predictions and mitigation measures.
Afghanistan
13 September 2021
Predictions and mitigation measures.
Afghanistan
May 2021
Attacks on Health Care in Afghanistan 2019
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Health Care
2023 Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC) Factsheet
Based on Insecurity Insight data, country factsheet of the 2023 Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC) report identified 109 incidents of violence against or obstruction of health care in Afghanistan in 2023, compared to 87 in 2022. In these incidents, at least 65 health workers were arrested. Health worker arrests by Taliban forces in Afghanistan nearly doubled between 2022 and 2023 while kidnappings increased by around a quarter. The full chapter is accessible here.
Our data is available to download here and can be explored visually using our interactive map: Attacked and Threatened: Health Care at Risk.
Blog Post: When Vaccine Hesitancy Turns Violent
Vaccinations have often been treated with suspicion in Afghanistan following reports of a fake hepatitis vaccination campaign in Pakistan by US intelligence agencies and subsequent propaganda campaigns by militant groups. Insecurity Insight’s blog post for the RIAH project at the University of Manchester, UK, discusses recorded incidents of critical violence against vaccination campaigns between January 2016 and February 2022 across 16 countries including Afghanistan.