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Afghan envoy calls Taliban's women rights ban 'unfortunate', hails India's
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Afghanistan Ambassador to India Farid Mamumdzay has called the suppression of women's rights in Afghanistan by the Taliban 'unfortunate', adding that he hopes that the Taliban would reconsider and revisit their policies and allow Afghan women the right to education and work.
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Barring Afghan women from work will interrupt humanitarian aid to Afghanis
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
According to Griffiths, humanitarian aid organisations working under the United Nations, need the support of women employees to continue delivering life-saving services to the Afghan people.
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Afghanistan among eight countries worst hit by hunger: Report
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Afghanistan is among the eight countries worst hit by hunger. The number of people facing severe hunger in Afghanistan increased from 2.25 million people in 2019 to 6.6 million in 2022, Khaama Press reported.
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UN chief 'disturbed' by Taliban's ban on women working for NGOs in Afghani
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The United Nations and its partners, including national and international non-governmental organizations, are helping more than 28 million Afghans who depend on humanitarian aid to survive. The reported ban on women working with the international community to save lives and livelihoods in Af
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Residents complain of 'lack of transparency' in distribution of aid to nee
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Amid the ongoing crisis in Afghanistan, the local residents criticized the "lack of transparency" in the distribution of humanitarian aid to needy families in the country by welfare organizations.
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India offers USD 280 million to Syria for building power, steel plant
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
While addressing the United Nations Security Council session on Syria's political-humanitarian situation, India's permanent representative Ruchira Kamboj said, "India has offered Lines of Credit worth USD 280 million to Syria for building a power plant and a steel plant."
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Assam Rifles conducts medical camp in Manipur's Tamenglong
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
As part of reach out a programme to the general population and assisting them in humanitarian aid, Assam Rifles conducted a medical camp at the far-flung Abin village in Tamenglong District in Manipur on Monday.
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Tharoor applauds India's abstention of vote in UNSC on humanitarian concer
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Saturday applauded India's abstention from the vote in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on a resolution that exempts humanitarian aid efforts from sanctions.
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"Dialogue and diplomacy are the only way forward": India in UNSC on Russia
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
In her address to the UN Security Council on the situation in Ukraine, Kamboj said that India has been consistently calling for an immediate cessation of hostilities since the commencement of Russia-Ukraine conflict
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At UNSC, India abstains from vote on resolution that exempts humanitarian
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
India's Permanent Representative to the UN Ruchira Kamboj said India's concerns were triggered by proven instances of terror groups taking full advantage of such humanitarian carve-outs and making a mockery of sanctions regimes.
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EU delivers medicines, nutritional aid to crisis-hit Afghanistan
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Afghanistan received a humanitarian cargo containing medicines and humanitarian aid from the European Union (EU) on Thursday. According to Khaama Press, humanitarian aid has reached Kabul via the EU humanitarian air bridge.
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Afghan economic stability 'critically dependent' on humanitarian aid: Rep
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The economic stability in Afghanistan is extensively dependent on humanitarian aid flows as the country faces hunger and deprivation for a second winter in a row, the US Institute for Peace (USIP) report said.
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