Afghanistan
Current Situation
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2011 Global Peace Index ranking of 153 countries: 150 |
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Over 309,000 internally displaced persons |
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As a result of armed conflict in 2010, 2,777 Afghan civilians were killed. |
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There is an estimated 668 million m2 of land contaminated by landmines, with more than four million people affected by mines. Half of the casualties have been children. |
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Under-5 mortality rate: 257 per 1000 live births |
Afghanistan is struggling to recover from more than a quarter century of conflict, with violence still raging in parts of the country. Since the late 1970s, Afghanistan has experienced a continuous state of civil war punctuated by foreign occupations from the 1979 Soviet invasion and the October 2001 US-led invasion.
Afghanistan is one of the most heavily mined countries in the world, and landmines and cluster bombs, remnants of these decades of conflict, continue to cause devastation. It is estimated that between 2001 and 2002 alone, more than 240,000 cluster bomblets were scattered in Afghanistan.
Act for Peace in Afghanistan
Act for Peace’s partner, Christian World Service Pakistan/Afghanistan, works with Afghan refugees in Pakistan.
Dedicated to advancing Afghan women’s health over the decades, our partner has helped to reduce controllable diseases such as tuberculosis, and also brought primary and secondary health services into the community.
