According to the UN Secretary General, in Afghanistan, a country governed by the Taliban Islamist movement, 95% of Afghans do not eat enough and 9 million are threatened with famine. That’s why some people are already “selling their children and body parts to feed their families” and “one million severely malnourished children are on the verge of death”he remarked.
The Taliban retook power in Afghanistan on August 15, 2021, following the hasty withdrawal of foreign forces led by the United States. Since then, the humanitarian crisis has rapidly worsened. At the moment, more than 24 million people need humanitarian aid to survive.
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The meeting, organized by the United Nations, the United Kingdom, Germany and Qatar, and which aims to triple the amount requested in 2021so far it has only achieved the 13% of the necessary amount. For its part, the United Kingdom promised US$380 million until April 2023with at least 50% of that aid going to women and girls.
“This new funding will be distributed through UN partners and trusted NGOs. No funding will go directly to the Taliban.”said the British Foreign Minister, Liz Truss.
While Germany stated that it would provide other $221 million in humanitarian funds. The German Foreign Minister, annalena baerbockdenounced that 20 years of progress for women since US-led troops ousted the Taliban in 2002 ‘must not disappear like ice melting in the sun’.
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The conference comes after the Taliban last week secondary schools for girls will close and two days after prevent women from taking flights unless accompanied by a male relativedespite his promise of greater restraint than during his previous regime, from 1996 to 2001.
While the organizers condemned the closure of girls’ schools, they insisted that the international community must not abandon the Afghan peoplewhen a 60% of its population requires help to survive. They also asked the donors not to forget the crisis in Afghanistan due to the attention paid to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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The UN Humanitarian Coordinator, Martin Griffithshopes that the measures -such as the closure of girls’ schools- will be “terminated in the near future”. The Briton, who met with Taliban leaders in Kabul, declared himself “firmly convinced” that the door remains open for a dialogue with the international community.
“We understand how delicate it is to make donations to Afghanistan in this context, but we also insist on the importance of not isolating Afghanistan (because) that legitimizes radical positions”declared, for his part, the spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Qatar, Majed Al-Ansari. At the same time, he called on the Taliban to listen to the Muslim world that “the teachings of islam do not marginalize women”.
Source: Ambito
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