Kabul, Afghanistan – One year after the Taliban takeover, 17-year-old Mursal Fasihi is still in disbelief that she cannot  go back to school and her hopes of becoming a doctor are now uncertain.

Statement of UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on Afghanistan

Paktika, Afghanistan – Minaz Bibi had just finished a midwifery course and was waiting for her deployment to a community health center when she received an unexpected call to report for an emergency duty: to support the humanitarian response to the earthquake that devastated the provinces of Paktika and Khost last June.