AIBU to ask how to help women and girls in Afghanistan

[Aplone]

... Following the takeover of the Taliban? Are there any practical steps which we in the UK can take to help women and girls who will now undoubtedly lose rights and freedoms under this new regime. I feel so helpless watching these events unfolding, and really want to be able to do something. Are there any reputable organisations* to donate to? Any other actions we can take (petitions etc. although please no links as they are not allowed!!)? Thank you very much.

*not Oxfam! After the way they behaved in Haiti I don't trust them one iota!

(Inb4 - "what about the menz?" I want to help women and girls and "what about our homeless veterans?" I want to help our homeless veterans too, infact it is an issue very close to my heart but I have some idea of what charities etc. offer support and you can support more than one cause!)

I just found another fund to donate to

thecircle.ngo/join-us/donate/?ltclid=08ba0604-f125-463a-a846-e7bde8d8b4ed

Thank you for putting together this list of ways to help. It is easy to feel helpless in this situation and that there is nothing that can be done.

I think that organisations that work with refugees is probably the best way to help but it is at least hopeful that UNICEF are remaining in the country.

Is it worth donating to the international Red Cross?? (IRC)

David Miliband emailer is saying they’ll double donations today.

Feel I want to do something.

Thought a few of you might like to watch this

Kandahar under the taliban and business as usual. Notice the lack of women, few in burkas in the market but none working. This is not a change as this is as it was before the recent events.
Seems like women were only visible in Kabul but outside of that nothing had really changed for women.

Look back on older video this man has put up and you don’t see a lot of difference between this video and the one taken 6 months ago.

Western ideas of women’s rights just don’t exist for the majority of Afghanistan.

@Proudboomer

500 women went to Kandahar's Uni this year - how many will go next year?

Of course, women do not have the same rights as say in europe but they have a lot more than they will going forward.

Its not really an argument to leave them to their fate.

Whilst 500 is better than none Kandahar has a population of over half a million.

@Proudboomer

Whilst 500 is better than none Kandahar has a population of over half a million.

9000 men go to that cities Uni, so women certainly had a long way to go. Rome wasn't built in a day!

I just think that considering the west stopped fighting the Taliban, on the ground in 2014, it seems to me that the sacrifices made from 2001 to 2014 have been wasted.

Certainly this is what the many families who lost loved ones and who suffered horrendous injuries are saying, backed up by the many experts on the region.