The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Aid (OCHA) announced that this year, 36,600 children under the age of five were denied food packages due to the "severe financial gap" for humanitarian aid to the people of Afghanistan.

The United Nations Children's Fund "UNICEF" in Afghanistan has said that one out of every five children in the country is working. The authorities of the Islamic Emirate, however, questioning the number of working children in Afghanistan, have said that they have set monthly pensions for the children who are forced to work.

The World Health Organization has said in the World Immunity Week that every child in Afghanistan deserves health and immunity against preventable diseases; but about 200,000 children in this country do not receive vaccines at all.