Afghanistan humanitarian crisis

So what??

No, I didn't watch this specific report, just read the article, but I have read extensively on the horrors in Afghanistan - I'm not ignorant of the situation there.

There are many men who are selling their children, while the child's mother is alive. My point is that mothers have no voice, they have no say, they have no rights - they are considered less than livestock. We don't hear from the women because they are so thoroughly oppressed they cannot even speak on the horrors that they experience.

This father, this man, has been centred - his suffering has been centred. The fact that he's sold his daughter off to be raped from the age of 10, and then bred like cattle from the point that she's fertile, to probably die in childbirth or see her own children starve and die, is not something I have any sympathy for him over.

The women in Afghanistan are not allowed an education, not allowed to train, nor allowed to be seen in public. If a passing man hears a woman’s voice inside her own home she can be killed.

How easy do you think it is for them to travel across their own country and then the world by working? You need skills to work. They have none beyond how to hide.

FWIW I do know several Indian women who work as nurses here and send money back to their children left with grandparents in India. It seems to be a common Asian tradition. Not sure that it’s a great solution either. What’s the point of having children you never get to see?

Tomorrow, i could read a news article about Afghanistan saying that they’ve dug an enormous hole and buried every last female in it.
I’m that desensitised to their depravity.

They literally just started repealing guardianship laws in Saudi. In iraq, lebanon and iran to mention just a few the minimum age for a girl to get married if they are shia is 9. 100 years ago women everywhere had minimal rights. Today in much of the world actual children are being legally married off. Acting like the west is comparable here is a nonsense. Saying women had minimal rights a hundred hundred years ago doesn’t excuse child marriage today,

I heard the report. Billions have been spent on Afghanistan and thousands of lives lost and it’s reverted to feudalism and a ruthless control of women by men at every level of their lives within weeks. This is the unfortunate result, they need to learn that their level of religiosity ends in disaster. This might take them a couple of centuries but there’s not a lot the outside world can do.

That doesn’t help women and girls there now though.

In feel like posters are being really short sighted and ignorant about history - women were still property of men here in England around 100 years ago and
had no legal rights and Middle Eastern countries were certainly not behind us in science, mathematics and art - certainly in Mathematics - the ability of the world to be developed due to algebra - that originated in Baghdad

💯 I’d be happy to see the women and children managing to escape. It never is. The man are complicit. It’s a backwards mess.
The few women who do make on the boats to escape are raped or tossed over on route.

Yes the concept of helping someone without demanding you be able to rape their small children seems to be beyond comprehension here.

To the poster who was talking about the Irish potato famine, selling your underage daughters has a long standing history in Afghanistan. It is not just in response to famine, it is a cultural habit. Yes there will be afghans who absolutely despise the practice but the idea that it is a response entirely to these circumstances is just not true.

I’m not sure what faith would be worse for her. No education, no music, repeated unplanned pregnancies or premature death.
Those dictators are in charge. They tiny windows of opportunity to change closed.
It isn’t only the dictators marrying children, it’s normal for many men to marry a child, impregnating her, until she dies young or he replaces her with a younger child bride.

I think his wife is dead and he is trying to keep the family dying from hunger

you clearly don’t watch it before commenting so ignorantly

You mean dictators - they are not leader

the man decided better to give her a chance as she will die without the operation - she will go to live with the relative that will pay when she is 10 and be married to the son

I would take that risk and hope that something will change

There are other ways to fight for change than violence. And single young women could send money back home just as easily, if they were sent away to work.

I'm looking at it from the point of view that nothing will ever change if the men who disagree with the misogyny just leave (and send money back to the trapped women and children). It only perpetuates the suffering. I'm not saying there's an easy solution, but it angers me.

unbelievable

we only have what we have because of the enforced sacrifices made by the developing world - the colonisation of their raw materials

we are the beneficiaries of those atrocities

I personally would rather take the life of all my children before agreeing to sell my DD to an unimaginable future.
It’s horrendous that they’re starving but unsurprising when the country is ruled by leaders.

Me too - I think saying “a man has had to sell his daughter” is being taken the wrong way

I’m astounded at the ignorance and unchecked privilege on this post

is that how you think it works?

do you think it was the common people who rose up and overthrew the king in England? It’s just that simple

the ignorance of your post astounds me

I find your response hugely ignorant

You need to watch it - then ask yourself what that man could do

I think then you’ll be ashamed of your response