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Humanitarian Infograms Afghanistan Content: • Security Incidents against Aid Workers • Civilian Casualties • Landmine Casualties • Internally Displaced Persons January – March 2010 This document and the information contained in it may be reproduced totally or partially by mechanical, electronic or magnetic means, while source is always mentioned. Kabul, Afghanistan, April 2010 © Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs This product may be downloaded from: http://ochaonline.un.org/afghanistan Contact: Omar Adrian Gonzalez de la Hoz [email protected] Synopsis Security Incidents Number of Security Incidents 45 Against Aid Workers Number of Affected Provinces 20 January – March 2010 Number of Affected Districts 31 OCHA | UN | Afghanistan Average of Security Incidents per Month 15 Source: UN Department of Safety and Security Security Incidents China Total Incidents Uzbekistan Tajikistan 1 2 3 4 - 10 Turkmenistan Turkmenistan KunduzKunduz JawzjanJawzjan BalkhBalkh TaTa kha kha r r BadakhshanBadakhshan FaryabFbF aryab SamanganSamangan BaghlanBaghlan According to UNDSS, between 1st January SariSari PulPul PanjsherPanjsher Nuristan st BadghisBadghis and 31 March 2010, a total of 45 security KunarKunar Bamyan KapisaKapisa incidents in which an aid worker was Bamyan LaghmanLaghman Kabul Kabul involved were reported in 31 districts in 10 Kabul Ghor Wardak Herat Wardak Nangarhar Herat LogarLogar Afghanistan. Daykundi KhostKhost Kabul (Kabul) is the most affected district Ghazni PaktyaPaktya followed by Kandahar (Kandahar) and Uruzgan Herat (Herat) with 10, 7 and 3 incidents FarahFarah PaktikaPaktika respectively. ZabulZabul Security Incidents: Top 10 Districts during 1st Quarter 2010 Kandahar 7 12 KandaharKandahar Pakistan 10 Hilmand IranIran Nimroz Nimroz 8 6 4 2 0 Security Incidents against Aid Workers by Incident Type Security Incidents Intimidation of aid workers was Against Aid Workers the most reported type of incident Intimidation during first quarter in 2010, 15 in January – March 2010 2% 2% ttltotal represen ting 28%fth28% of the a ll Others incidents. OCHA | UN | Afghanistan 4% Crime 4% Source: UN Department of Safety and Security 4% 28% Abduction 5% Arrest Armed clash 11% IED detonated Suicide attack Assassination 24% 16% Mine/UXO incident Year/Month Jan Feb Mar 2009 18 33 28 2010 20 14 20 Security Incidents against Aid Workers by Target Group Except for January 2010, there was a decrease of security incidents against aid workers in 2010’s first quarter compared with the same period in 2009. 100% Nat NGO 90% 80% Int NGO 70% Security Incidents against Aid Workers by Month (Comparison: 2009 and 2010) 60% Civilians 50% 35 40% 30 30% 20% UN 25 10% 20 2009 Incidents 0% 2010 % Sec. Inc. No. 15 10 5 The UN (21 incidents) was the most 0 targeted group during the first quarter of Jan Feb Mar 2010 followed by Civilians (18 Incidents) Months contracted on a temporary basis for aid agency, according to UNDSS reports. The Security Incidents against aid workers’ Percentage of Change (between 1st quarter 2009 Security Incidents and 1st quarter 2010), is a measure of difference between the number of incidents that Against Aid Workers occurred during 1st quarter 2009 and the number of incidents that occurred during 1st quarter 2010. The sign of deviation, either positive or negative, indicates whether the total of Percentage of Change between st incidents occurred during 1 quarter 2010 is larger than or smaller than the total of incidents 1st Qu arter 2009 and 1st QarterQuarter occurred during 1st quarter 2009. The magnitude of the value reports how different (in the percentage scale shown in the right) the total of incidents occurred during 1st quarter in 2010 2010 is from the total of incidents occurred during 1st quarter in 2009. OCHA | UN | Afghanistan Source: UN Department of Safety and Security China Uzbekistan Tajikistan Security Incidents Percentage of Change Decrease >100% Decrease between 99.99% and 0.01% Nor Decrease or Increase Kaldar Increase between 0.01% and 50% Turkmenistan 100.00 % Increase >100% Turkmenistan KunduzKunduz JawzjanJawzjan BalkhBalkh Ta kha r Badakhshan FaryabFaryab Aliabad Ta kha r Badakhshan 100.00 % 100% Increase: There are 21 districts Almar 100.00 % SamanganSamangan BaghlanBaghlan where no security incidents against aid Muqur SariSari PulPul Kahmard workers were reported by UNDSS in first Nari 100.00 % 100.00 % Nuristan Badghis Sayd Khel 100.00 % Badghis 100.00 % quarter 2009, and where during the first ParwanParwan KunarKunar Bamyan Mir Kohsan Bamyan Bacha Kot quarter 2010 there were incidents 100.00 % 100.00 % Kabul Bihsud Herat KabulKabul reported in those districts by the same Ghor 53.33 % 100.00 % 66.67 % Ghor Wardak Nangarhar LogarLogar Pachir source. HHerateear a t Wa Agam 100.00 % Daykundi Charkh 100.00 % PaktyaPaktya Increase between 1% and 67%: Kabul Ghazni KhostKhost Tan i (Kabul), Pashtun Kot (Faryab), Herat Chora 100.00 % 100.00 % (Herat), Kandahar (Kandahar) and FarahFarah UruzganUruzgan PaktikaPaktika Pusht Rod Zabul Gardez (Paktya), are districts with an 100.00 % Zabul increase of security incidents in the first quarter 2010 compared with the same Lashkar Gah period in 2009. 100.00 % KandaharKandahar Zaranj Pakistan 100.00 % Nor increase or decrease: Chapa Dara Iran Hilmand Iran NimrozNimroz (Kunar), Fayzabad (Badakhshan), Maymana (Faryab), Tirin Kot (Uruzgan) and Saydabad (Wardak) districts did not present any change in these two periods. Decrease: Kunduz (Kunduz), Puli Alam (Logar) and Jalalabad (Nangarhar) presented a decrease of incidents during these two compared periods. Synopsis Civilian Casualties Number of Civilian Deaths 583 Number of Injured Civilians 906 January – March 2010 Number of Affected Districts 132 OCHA | UN | Afghanistan Source: UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights China Civilian Casualties Total Civilian Deaths Uzbekistan Tajikistan Incident without Civilian Deaths 1 - 7 8 - 17 18 - 33 34 - 57 Turkmenistan JawzjanJawzjan KunduzKunduz BalkhBalkh TaTa kha kha r r BadakhshanBadakhshan Between 1st January and 31st SamanganSamangan March, the UN Office of the High BaghlanBaghlan Commissioner of Human Rights SariSari PulPul Faryab Faryab Nuristan (UNOHCHR) reported 583 civilian Badghis Badghis ParwanParwan deaths and 906 injured civilians in KunarKunar BamyanBamyan 132 districts in Afghanistan. Kabul Ghor Wardak Kabul LogarLogar Nangarhar 30% o f all civili an death s durin g th e Herat Daykundi first quarter in 2010 were in three Paktya Ghazni Paktya districts: Nad Ali (Hilmand), KhostKhost Shahidi Lashkar Gah (Hilmand), and Hassas Uruzgan 33 FarahFarah Kandahar (Kandahar). Zabul Dihrawud Zabul 22 PaktikaPaktika Nahri Sarraj Nad Ali 22 Kandahar 57 Lashkar 51 Kandahar Gah Kandahar Civilian Casualties: Top 10 Districts during 1st Quarter 2010 52 Pakistan 60 Iran Iran NimrozNimroz 50 40 30 Hilmand 20 10 0 Civilian Casualties by Incident Type Civilian Casualties 3% According to the UN Office of 3% IED 4% the High Commissioner of Human Rights, the most deadly 27% Suicide Attack (BB/ January – March 2010 8% VB) type of incident for civilians is Shooting IED followed by Suicide Attack OCHA | UN | Afghanistan (BB/VB). 48% of the civilian Air Attack Source: UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human 9% deaths during first quarter 2010 Rights Execution/ are attributed to these two Assassination causes. Mortar/ Rocket/ Grenade Attack 12% Search/ Raid 21% Escalation of Force/ Force Protection 13% Ground Engagement Y/MthYear/Month Jan FbFeb Mar 2009 170 180 191 2010 139 147 118 Civilian Casualties by st Condition There was a decrease of civilian deaths duringgp the period between 1 January 100% and 31st March 2010 compared with the same period in 2009. 80% Injured 60% 40% Civilian Casualties by Month (Comparison: 2009 and 2010) 20% Killed 200 0% 180 160 Condition 140 120 Deaths 2009 100 2010 80 The UN Office of the High 60 Civilian 40 Commissioner of Human Rights No 20 reported 61% of the civilian 0 casualties d uri ng thi s peri o d in Jan Feb Mar 2010 were injured. Months The Civilian Casualties’ Percentage of Change (between 1st quarter in 2009 and 2010), is a Civilian Casualties measure of difference between the number of civilian deaths occurred during 1st quarter st Percentage of Change between 2009 and the number of civilian deaths occurred during 1 quarter 2010. The sign of st st deviation, either positive or negative, indicates whether the total of civilian deaths occurred 1 Quarter 2009 and 1 Quarter during 1st quarter 2010 is larger than or smaller than the total of civilian deaths occurred 2010 during 1st quarter 2009. The magnitude of the value reports how different (in the percentage OCHA | UN | Afghanistan scale shown in the right) the total of civilian deaths occurred during 1st quarter in 2010 is Source: UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human st from the total of civilian deaths occurred during 1 quarter in 2009. Rights China Civilian Casualties Uzbekistan Tajikistan PtfChPercentage of Change Decrease >100% Decrease between 99.99% and 0.01% Nor Decrease or Increase Increase between 0.01% and 50% Turkmenistan JawzjanJawzjan Khwaja Ghar Increase > 50% Turkmenistan Qush Tepa BalkhBalkh 100.00 % 100.00 % Mazari Shari KunduzKunduz 100.00 % Aliabad TaTa kha kha r r BadakhshanBadakhshan Sari Pul 100.00 % 100.00 % 100% Increase: There are 26 districts without SamanganSamangan civilian deaths reported in the first quarter FaryabFaryab BaghlanBaghlan 2009, whilst during the first quarter 2010 Muqur SariSari PulPul Shutul 87.50 % there were