Attachments
General Assembly
Seventy-ninth session
Item 35 of the provisional agenda*
The situation in Afghanistan
Security Council
Seventy-ninth year
I. Introduction
1. The present report is submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolution 68/11 and Security Council resolution 2727 (2024), in which the Secretary-General was requested to report every three months on the situation in Afghanistan and the implementation of the mandate of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), including at the subnational level.
2. The report provides an update on the activities of the United Nations in Afghanistan, including political, humanitarian and human rights efforts, since the issuance of the previous report, dated 13 June 2024 (A/78/914-S/2024/469).
II. Relevant developments
3. Amid reports of internal tensions, the Taliban leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada, reinforced messaging about the need for unity and obedience from the population. The de facto authorities continued their outreach to bridge gaps between the authorities and various segments of society, including ethnic minority groups and former government officials. Attacks and propaganda by Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant-Khorasan (ISIL-K) continued, together with some lower intensity attacks by the armed opposition. The de facto authorities implemented a salary cut for certain categories of women civil servants and announced the ratification of a new law on the promotion of virtue and prevention of vice, further curtailing women’s rights. In 2024, an estimated 23.7 million people will require humanitarian assistance. As at 30 August, the Afghanistan Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan for 2024 had received only 24.9 per cent of the required $3.06 billion in funding. As at 12 August, the United Nations Strategic Framework for Afghanistan, 2023–2025, had received only 33.3 per cent of the $2.9 billion required to meet the basic human needs of people in Afghanistan for 2024.