Afghan refugees from Iran arrive at the border. UVKB is called to help Afghanistan in connection with the mass return of refugees Refugees and migrants Over the past three and a half months, 640 thousand Afghan refugees returned from Iran to Afghanistan, 360 thousand of them were deported. The mass return is basically not voluntary – people obey the requirement of the Iranian government. The UN Directorate for Refugees (UVKB) is trying to help these people, however, against the backdrop of a sharp reduction in financing of the UN capabilities, they are extremely limited. 62 ~ Arafat Jamal, representative of the UN UN in Afghanistan, spoke about this in an interview with the UN news service. According to him, since the beginning of the year, more than 1.2 million Afghans were forced to return to their homeland from Iran and Pakistan. Every day, and sometimes every few hours, buses with refugees arrive at the Afghan border. People are exhausted by a long road, loaded with a belongings, which they managed to make over the years of immigration. Many of them are returning to the country that they almost do not know – they spent a decade in Iran or Pakistan. ~ 60 > recent war between Israel and Iran accelerated the process of movement, and large -scale abbreviations of financing seriously complicated the provision of humanitarian Assistance. ~ 60 > Arafat Jamal has just returned from the border area of Islam-Kala. According to him, from the moment of a 12-day conflict, the flow of people to Afghanistan has increased sharply-from about 5,000 border intersections per day until the peak is almost 30,000. 60 > representative of the UVKB warned that Afghans are returning to the impoverished country, which was not ready to ensure normal living conditions. Women and girls who had access to education and work in Iran fall into the conditions of “gender injustice”. ~ ~ 60 > Together with partners, the UN Supreme Commissioner for Refugees provides urgent humanitarian assistance to arriving. People are provided with food, water, shelter, as well as protection – access to legal assistance and reintegration programs. ~ 60 > However, the reduction in financing inflicted an “absolutely crushing blow to our programs,” the representative of the UVKB noted. The volume of money was sharply reduced – from two thousand dollars to a family to only $ 156, which makes life restoration much more difficult.