International efforts to ensure the protection and care of at least 200,000 new Afghan refugees in Pakistan in recent months have followed a traditional pattern of neglect for those taking refuge in urban areas. Humanitarian assistance is favoring new arrivals residing in Pakistan government-sanctioned, United Nations-administered camps. Development assistance has also not significantly reached long-standing Afghan refugee and migrant populations, who stretched their thin resources to receive the new refugees. As a result, tens of thousands ??? perhaps the majority of the new refugees ??? have integrated into already struggling, pre-existing urban refugee communities in Pakistan with limited to no access to humanitarian assistance or protection interventions. Consequently, enormous child protection problems, including harmful child labor, have been greatly exacerbated. (Description from Source)
