What it’s like to be a mother in conflict

After a year of severe drought, flash floods have killed at least 77 people and destroyed thousands of homes in Afghanistan.

This report explores the challenges facing Afghan refugees in reaching Europe and evaluates the European response with recommendations to overcome immediate challenges and put in place a sustainable, longer-term approach better aligned with EU values.

The IRC has signed a joint statement along with other NGOs warning EU member states that the proposed Instrumentalisation Regulation will seriously damage the Common European Asylum System.

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.