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Sharp reductions in international assistance seriously limit the UN ability to support hundreds of thousands of vulnerable Afghans returning, while the humanitarian reaction is already at the limit after a series of deadly earthquakes, warns the head of the IMA mission.
Only this year, about 2 million Afghans returned from Iran and Pakistan – most of Iran – with 40,000 people per day Cross the border in July last year, in the midst of a crisis.
Some voluntarily return, but many are forcibly deported. Pakistan accelerated the deportation in the context of the so -called “Plan of Repetition of Illegal Foreigners”, setting the deadline for the deadline September 1 For Afghans who have records of the UN Supreme Commissioner.
At the same time, a huge return of the Afghans is recorded – between them and refugees – from Iran, after Twelve -day conflict between Iran and IsraelWith Tehran, referring to the considerations of national security and the association of Afghans in the country with Israeli secret services.
Many of those who return are arriving Without somethingHaving an urgent need for housing, financial assistance and support to restore their lives.
“They are returning to the New Country. They do not know how to move to the system or what are the conditions, ”said Mitig Park, head of the MOM mission in Afghanistan. “Many are without documents, and even when they have them, they often confiscate them on the border.”
The park explains that needs are needed: cash, shelter and access to employment opportunities. “Many people want to stay and see how they will do it. But they quickly discover that there are no opportunities for life and there are no houses. ”
Permission in help leave most compensation by helpless
Wide reductions in Western humanitarian and development – with the decision of the US President Donald Trump, freeze financing in February – affect world assistance, and Afghanistan especially affects.
In 2025 they were cut out 1.7 billion dollars in American assistance to Afghanistan, which forced 50 international organizations limit or partially suspend their activities.
The UN has already warned that a reduction in financing could be a “death sentence” for millions of people.
“This greatly influenced our work – not only MOM, but also all humanitarian organizations in the country,” the park emphasizes. “We had to make very complex decisions so that De-Pre-emper (…), and this is to the earthquake and mass returns that we did not predict Iran and Pakistan.”
The organization created Nine criteria of vulnerability direct limited assistance to those who are in greatest need. “In 2023, when about a million people returned from Pakistan, we were able to help almost everyone. Today we can maintain only 20% to 30% of those who meet the criteria, ”he explains.
Recent earthquakes on the eastern border of the country that killed 2200 peopleThey worsened the crisis, warning the UN that some injured areas had not yet come up. Extraordinary appeal was issued almost for 140 million dollars In order to support half a million people.
Women are returning to huge obstacles
The UN warns that returning women are in growth, since the restrictions on the Taliban on women and girls are intensified.
“Problems are huge, especially for women who return from Iran. They are formed, subjected to a more open society where they went to school, worked, had a university. Returning to Afghanistan, they are concerned and uncertain about how to adapt to society without freedom for work and education, ”the park notes.
According to MOM, women make up about one third of Iran, and half of those who return from Pakistan.
On Thursday, the UN UN has announced that Freezing help Upon returning, after the Taliban decision, to ban it to Afghan employees to work.
In her statement, the UN complained that “de -phactor Afghan security forces prevented national employees and UN employees to enter the buildings of the organization in Kabul,” and the presence of the police was also registered in Herat and Mazar.
MOM explains that, although it influences, he continues to be a “committed early response in the country”, supporting vulnerable Afghans – men, women and children – through humanitarian programs and development assistance programs provided by men and women throughout the territory.