Afghanistan Crisis: A Widespread Famine | @HumanRightsWatch
Recently, HRW called on the donor countries, the UN, and international financial institutions to urgently address Afghanistan’s collapsed economy and broken banking system to prevent widespread famine. The UN World Food Program has issued multiple warnings of worsening food insecurity and the risk of large-scale deaths from hunger throughout Afghanistan in the near future. The media have reported that families lacking money and food are selling their possessions and seeking to flee the country overland. Impoverished Afghans facing malnutrition have described desperate attempts to buy or forage for food, and the deaths of people unable to leave Afghan’s financial crisis has especially affected women and girls. The Taliban bans are keeping women from most paid jobs, hitting households in which women were the prime earners the hardest. Additionally, there have been reports of families selling their children, especially girls, ostensibly for marriage, to obtain food or to repay debts. Numerous banking officials and humanitarian agency staffers informed that most Afghan banks cannot cover withdrawals by private actors and aid organizations. Even when funds are transmitted electronically into banks, the lack of cash means that money is not physically available and, therefore, cannot flow into the country’s economy. Afghanistan’s current crisis is being caused and exacerbated by multiple factors, including cut-offs in foreign assistance that paid salaries of millions of public and private employees, mass withdrawals from private banks, and a collapsing economy. It also includes the Taliban’s past links to Al-Qaeda, disastrous prior period of governance, failure to keep public commitments, and horrific human rights record. #AfghanistanCrisis #Taliban #HumanRights ----------- Check related videos on Afghanistan 👇 As China steps to Taliban, Uyghurs in Afghanistan fear for their lives • As China steps to Taliban, Uyghurs in Afgh... Donors pledge $1.1 billion to help Afghanistan amid looming catastrophe • Donors pledge $1.1 billion to help Afghani... Afghanistan: At-Risk Civilians Need Evacuation, Protection after government collapses • Afghanistan: At-Risk Civilians Need Evacua... Canada evacuated 12 flights and more than 1,100 Afghans who fear retribution • Canada evacuated 12 flights and more than ... ----------- Do subscribe to Did You Know?? for more interesting facts. / @didyouknowaboutthis
