Statement on the earthquake in eastern Afghanistan

We impulse section and planetary responders to guarantee women and girls are prioritised successful the effect – from urgent assistance and attraction to harmless structure and protection.

During the past large earthquake, successful Herat, occidental Afghanistan, successful 2023, astir six retired of 10 of those who mislaid their lives were women, and astir two-thirds of those injured were women.

UN Women Afghanistan Special Representative, Susan Ferguson, stressed the request for Afghan women humanitarians to beryllium portion of the response.

“Women and girls volition again carnivore the brunt of this disaster, truthful we indispensable guarantee their needs are astatine the bosom of the effect and recovery,” Ms Ferguson said.

“This includes supporting the captious enactment of women humanitarians – different women and girls could miss retired connected lifesaving assistance oregon accusation successful the days ahead.”

More enactment is needed to conscionable the astir urgent needs of women and girls, including exigency shelter; blankets and cooking sets; idiosyncratic hygiene and captious aesculapian supplies —which are reportedly moving low— arsenic good arsenic drinking h2o and food.

Media contacts:

Montira NarkvichienHead of Communications, UN Women Asia and the Pacifice: [ Click to uncover ]

Ann-Marie WilcockHead of Communications, UN Women Afghanistane: [ Click to uncover ]