Afghanistan humanitarian crisis

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BBC news 3 out of 4 struggle to find food

A growing number of billionaires and yet shocking food famine around the world.

Shocking decisions taken to sell children.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0q25dwj807o

It's appalling

Hopefully at some point the male relatives of these women will try end fight back. Unlike super sophisticated regimes like iren I imagine guns etc maybe easier to get to fight back.

Coalition and afghan northern alliance forces invaded Afghanistan in 2001 as the Taliban refused to say, or handover Osama bin laden without "evidence" of his guilt for 9/11.

In the intervening 20 plus years, allied and western countries, charities, NGOs and others encouraged education particularly if women and girls, set up schools, hospitals and support services.
Defence and police were trained for local people to protect what they had gained. Twenty years. I am aware people reading this may not be aware of this.

The plan had always been to withdraw western forces and let the liberated Afghan people take back control. This would have mean standing up to and defending their 20 years of freedom from the Taliban.

It ended badly.

The problem in Afghanistan is dire, but this is 100% down to the taliban rules. Even if billionaires donated food, it would not make it to the people.. and certainly not women and girls who the Taliban see literally as lower than animals ! In fact animals have more freedoms and rights.

there is only one way this would be resolved and that’s a war - with international
support cooperation and staying long term in the ground - and no one will support that.

I agree with this. I don’t think ‘billionaires' are the issue here.
I read that the Taliban banned women from being treated by male doctors and also banned them from receiving medical training themselves.
They banned women from talking in public places and even from being seen from the street through the windows of their own homes. Twisted, woman-hating monsters.
There was a recent earthquake in Afghanistan where male rescuers refused to pull women from rubble, because of a “no-touch” rule enforced by the Taliban.
I’d love to know how to effectively help these poor women and children in an environment rigorously controlled by men who hate them.

Yes it’s horrific stuff, including a return to stoning as punishment.

‘Men selling their daughters’ - these men couldn’t give a flying fuck about their daughters or any girls/women, as you well know.

The men in the programme clearly did care about their daughters

No they don't.

They are probably thrilled they have something to sell.

Not enough to have fought for their rights.
I have no time for these men.

Instead of crying about having to SELL their daughters (to feed and access healthcare themselves!), why not mobilise and tackle the Taliban regime? Cowards, the lot of them.

Well quite. The sons weren’t being sold. I wonder how much of the stale bread made it as far as home or did the men just eat it there and then? And yes the men would be the ones out trying to find food or employment since woman are no longer allowed to go outside. In the September 2025 earthquake the women were left to die. If I thought for one minute that any donation I made would go to the women and girls, then I’d absolutely donate. It won’t though. I’m sure there are some very good men who don’t support the Taliban regime, and don’t approve the appalling treatment of women, but until they are able to make their voices heard, there is very little which can be done. The Taliban will be blaming the current situation on the West, and many will believe their propaganda. Eventually there may be an uprising, in the early 70s Afghanistan was a much more progressive society, where women made up a decent proportion of the professional workforce and Kabul university was very much seen as a prestigious centre of learning with international recognition.

Did you see it. The men looked distraught that they couldn't provide for their children.

The Linda Norgrove Foundation run out of Scotland is an excellent charity that specifically helps women and children in Afghanistan. If you google them you can see the kind of things that the charity has supported over the last couple of years.

Oh please stop with the naivety. They are SELLING their children. Sorry, not children. Just daughters.
They look distraught for themselves, nobody else.

Thank you, I'll take a look

Yep the men betrayed the women and the girls. They always do. They can push us aside any time they want and they just love that fact. That is what they chose. Thats what most of the men would choose any time they get a choice. Given half a chance men here stab us in the back at any opportunity too. Historically proven, they as a group push women as a group away from employment and resources as soon as there is any competition. Then we are still expected to feel sorry for the poor men forced to sell their daughters rather than those daughters themselves.

I would wish for death in their society.

I saw earlier news articles where all the men could do was blame the Americans and the rest of us for withdrawing aid rather than themselves for creating a society that cannot exist without it. We are also not supposed to link this to Islam as a religion either.

If anyone's interested there are charities that help there. No-one is forced to be interested. Poor girls there, what sort of future

The Taliban will be blaming the current situation on the West, and many will believe their propaganda.

I think this is a very accurate observation.
I’ve just googled - when the Allied forces retreated in August 2021, the Taliban were vastly outnumbered by the broader adult male population of the country. These men were also armed.
Why didn’t they fight back?

Can’t speak to your friends experience in Sudan because I don’t really know anyone on that mission but for AFG there are a few differences on the ground.

Women can and do go to health clinics - and they are not all closed, it’s one of the ways we provide nutrition support. - just as an example Afghan humanitarian fund (in UN we have country funds for every country in humanitarian response) allocated 6.3 million USD for health which supports just under 750, 000 to access healthcare including therapeutic feeding and nutrition for kids with severe malnutrition

The Taliban provided a waiver for health care (basically just obstetrics and gynaecology) for women to still provide services but very controlled and there is definitely difficulty to access.

I suspect that living under the Taliban it’s much safer to criticise the Americans for cutting aid than the regime for refusing to comply with conditions that would of allowed international aid to continue.

Absolutely abhorrent comment.
As you well know.

Your ignorance is mind boggling

It’s absolute truth. And yes it’s abhorrent. These are our fathers, brothers and the sons we give life to as well as the male partners who primarily care about getting sex.