About 90% of the population of Afghanistan, including children, are on the verge of poverty, said a representative of the UN children’s fund (UNICEF) Francs at a press brafting in New York.
According to him, in 2023, 2.3 million children may face a malnutrition, while 175 thousand of them need treatment related to the lack of foods that are life -threatening states.
“Speaking about this country, which is in a deep crisis, struggling with humanitarian disasters, natural disasters associated with climate change, and egregious violations of human rights, very many forget that the crisis of children’s rights is observed in Afghanistan. And this crisis is only aggravated by the crisis “, – said the train quoted by the UN website.
According to him, this year 140 thousand pregnant women and nursing mothers will face a malnutrition.
In addition, due to the overflow of Afghanistan with weapons only from January to March of this year, 134 children died or were crippled by explosive devices, he said.
The train added that only 22% of the requested funds were currently allocated to the implementation of the Humanitarian projects of the UNICEF to support children of Afghanistan.