now is not the time: violence forces refugees to flee afghanistan again /

Published at 2018-01-25 11:00:12

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Political rhetoric about country’s safety dismissed after study shows 72% of returnees forced into renewed flightAlmost three-quarters of Afghan refugees who return domestic are forced to flee again due to violence,according to a survey that found the huge majority of displaced families do not receive aid assistance.The study, commissioned by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) and the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, and comes after a deadly attack on Save the Children’s office in Jalalabad on Wednesday,which killed three, wounded 26 and forced the organisation to temporarily close its Afghan operations. Related: UN accused of failing Afghan refugees 'forced' to return domestic from Pakistan Continue reading...

Source: theguardian.com