NRC Chief: World Is Turning a Blind Eye to Afghanistan’s Growing Crisis

Resilience Is Not Enough: OCHA Sounds Alarm on Underfunded Humanitarian Crisis in Afghanistan

“Mainly, people tell me they’re exhausted. They’re exhausted from being poor, from being hungry, from repeated climate shocks, mounting debt, and the daily struggle to provide for their families,” Olga Cherevko, Spokesperson for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Afghanistan, told UN reporters on August 4. Traveling across Afghanistan, from […]

NRC Chief: World Is Turning a Blind Eye to Afghanistan’s Growing Crisis

Afghanistan is facing mounting humanitarian and economic pressures as more than six million Afghans have returned from neighbouring countries since late 2023, with 73% of returnees unemployed, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said. Jan Egeland, secretary-general of the NRC, said Monday, August 10, that the scale of returns was placing additional pressure on communities already struggling with poverty, unemployment and limited access to basic …

NRC: Aid to Afghanistan drops to 26% in five years

International funding for Afghanistan’s humanitarian response has fallen from 96% to 26% over the past five years, even as more than six million people have returned from neighboring countries and communities face mounting economic and climate pressures, the Norwegian Refugee Council said. Afghanistan’s annual humanitarian response plan was nearly 96 percent funded in 2021, according to the NRC. That figure fell to 42 percent in 2025, and only 2…

World has turned its back on Afghan civilians: NRC

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said on Monday Afghanistan is facing a deep humanitarian, economic and climate crisis, while NATO countries have forgotten their promises to support the Afghan people. In a statement marking five years since Western troops and diplomats left Afghanistan, the NRC said millions of Afghan civilians are struggling with worsening humanitarian conditions as international aid continues to decline. According to the NR…

NRC Accuses NATO Countries of Abandoning Afghanistan Amid Rising Humanitarian Needs

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN – The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has accused NATO member states of abandoning their promises to support the Afghan people after withdrawing their troops, diplomats, and institutions, amid a deepening humanitarian, economic, and climate crisis in Afghanistan. In a report on Monday, the NRC said the situation was being compounded by the return of more than six million Afghans from neighboring countries, recurring climate sh…