Insgesamt will Iran fast zwei Millionen Afghanen deportieren
In den vergangenen sechs Monaten hat die iranische Regierung 1,2 Millionen afghanische Flüchtlinge abgeschoben. Bis März nächsten Jahres müssen weitere 800.000 und somit insgesamt zwei der sechs Millionen Afghanen das Land verlassen, wie Innenminister Eskandar Momeni der Nachrichtenagentur Irna zufolge mitteilte.
Diese Maßnahme werde im gesetzlichen Rahmen für Ausländer ohne gültigen Aufenthaltsstatus durchgeführt und hätte nichts mit „Fremdenfeindlichkeit“ zu tun, so der iranische Minister.
Anhaltende Konflikte, extreme Armut und hohe Arbeitslosigkeit zwingen jedes Jahr viele Afghanen dazu, die 300 Kilometer lange Grenze zum Iran illegal zu überqueren.
Was diese Menschen in Afghanistan erwartet:
At the transit camp in Islam Qala in western Afghanistan, Fatima steps out of the bus into the blazing heat and an uncertain future. She is one of 10,000 people who has arrived from Iran that day and one of 800,000 who has arrived over the last six months. She hurries her three children to an empty spot, slumps onto the dusty ground, and shelters her family with bed sheets. When asked where she goes from here, she says a brother might take them in in her home town. (…)
The departure from Iran has been traumatic, but her real challenges start now. When she arrives in her hometown, there will be no jobs in the public sector for her. Men will be reluctant to hire her because of the rules and regulations associated with employing women. Her one chance to cope will be to get her own enterprise going. For that, she’ll need start-up capital. She may also need assistance from her brother to access markets. It will be a struggle, but increasing numbers of Afghan women are rising to this challenge. Fatima could, too. If only she could get access to credit.
Dazu schreibt am Jahrestage der Machtübergabe an die Taliban UN-Women:
Since September 2023, more than 2.43 million undocumented Afghans have returned – many forcibly – from Iran and Pakistan. Women and girls represent one-third of returnees from Iran so far in 2025, and about half of all returnees from Pakistan.
Many return to a country they have never lived in, arriving with no home, no income and no access to education or healthcare. Afghanistan is already facing an economic crisis and climate shocks. Like all women and girls in Afghanistan, returnee women and girls face increased risks of poverty, early marriage, violence, exploitation and unprecedented restrictions on their rights, movements and freedoms.
“Vulnerable women and girls arriving with nothing into communities that are already stretched to breaking point puts them at even greater risk,” said UN Women Afghanistan Special Representative Susan Ferguson. “They are determined to rebuild with dignity, but we need more funding to provide the dedicated support they need and to ensure women humanitarian workers are there to reach them.”
The new report from the Afghanistan Gender in Humanitarian Action Working Group – a humanitarian working group co-chaired by UN Women and CARE International – highlights the urgent and long-term needs of these women and girls.