UN Renews Call for Protection of Afghan Civilians, After Casualty Figures Spike in 2016

by eNews Park Forest on February 6, 2017

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**Special Representative for Afghanistan Tadamichi Yamamoto (right), and Danielle Bell, Director, Human Rights Unit, UNAMA, present latest report on civilian casualties. Photo: UNAMA/Fardin Waezi.**

GENEVA–(ENEWSPF)–6 February 2017 – Attacks in Afghanistan by the Taliban, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da’esh) and pro-Government troops killed or injured more children and other civilians in 2016 than at any other time since the United Nations began keeping records, it was announced today.