humanitarian aid

• Afghanistan

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi visited Afghanistan this week, where he called for support to both Afghans in the country and Afghan refugees who have fled abroad.

• Afghanistan

Funding for aid programs in Afghanistan has dried up since the Taliban takeover and experts have warned of an impending humanitarian crisis. The UN had originally aimed for $600 million in funding.

• Afghanistan

Despite the takeover of the militant Islamist Taliban in Afghanistan, the UN refugee agency UNHCR has announced that it plans to remain in the country — even after the devastating suicide attack on Thursday, which killed over 100 people.

• Afghanistan
• Latvia
• Poland

Dozens of Iraqi Kurds and Afghans have sought the help of the European Court of Human Rights over asylum claims. The EU has blamed Belarus for the recent build up of migrants on its border.

• Afghanistan
• Belarus
• Iraq

The Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights has called on Poland to protect the human rights of Afghan migrants stuck at its border with Belarus. The migrants have been camped out in the open for the past two weeks.

• Lebanon

The economic crisis in Lebanon has left 120,000 migrant workers in need of humanitarian assistance to survive, according to UN migration agency IOM.

• Italy

Several Italian organizations have said that an eviction of an informal camp for transiting migrants in Rome was "ineffective" and have criticized the government for proving "no alternative solution ... for the people taking shelter there."

• Afghanistan

UNHCR is appealing to the international community for continued engagement and increased support for the people of Afghanistan, including for internally displaced people and refugees seeking safety outside the country.

• Lebanon
• Syria
• Turkey

On the occasion of the fifth international conference on Syria, the United Nations has launched an appeal to international donors to finance support to Syrians within the country and to the communities that host refugees from the conflict.

• Belgium
• Syria

On International Women's Day, InfoMigrants spoke with Louma Albik, the Syrian-born founder of the humanitarian aid organization SB Overseas. Based in Brussels, the NGO funds schools for Syrian refugees in Lebanon and offers empowerment classes to women.

• Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Italy

Italian Catholic charity Caritas is promoting an initiative to raise money for migrants who are stranded in the Lipa camp, in northwestern Bosnia, as the humanitarian situation is worsening along the Balkan route.

• Afghanistan

Save The Children has warned that almost 10 million children need life-saving assistance in Afghanistan, where conflict is causing hundreds of thousands of people to leave their homes every year.