How the IRC continues to respond to the growing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan.

The IRC was present at the 2024 European Humanitarian Forum which took place 18-19 March 2024 in Brussels, where IRC staff joined EU policymakers, clients and actors from humanitarian settings to share insights on humanitarian aid. We were delighted to present an exhibition on climate change in Afghanistan hosted by IRC Afghanistan Communications Coordinator Abdul Khaliq Sediqi. Learn more about the forum.

An alarming estimate of 15.3 million people in Afghanistan were facing food insecurity in 2023. Today, starvation could likely kill more Afghans than the last twenty years of war have.