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

Until the Men of Afghanistan find their balls and rise up to get rid of the Taliban, it will carry on. Every Clannish/ tribal society is the same, 500 years behind the developed world.

Unfortunately, you've hit the nail on the head. It's symptomatic of a misogynistic, abusive society. It's not JUST the Taliban at fault; every single male is complicit. I recognise that an impoverished father may hold little sway against a regime, but they not entirely without power - be it reducing the risk of pregnancy by practicing safe or no sex, or helping relatives with money without asking for a little child's hand in marriage in return, or organising underground resistance groups. In Afghanistan, change has to come from within.

OP - you sound really naive

Religious fundamentalism, in all it's guises, is very much linked to oppression of women and exploitation of children. It is well known that young boys are raped by the Taliban. Female children are sold to be raped. I very much doubt any Afghan women are consenting to being impregnated and risking death in childbirth.
Do we think the Taliban are motivated by religious conviction? Or just the desire to abuse women and children and satisfy their desire for sex?

They probably like them just fine. Plus it's very handy to say you're fleeing them when you rock up at Dover in a dinghy.

I’m pretty sure the protection of virtue/ prevention of vice rules prohibit women from talking to / being photographed by international journalists.

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

I think then you’ll be ashamed of your response

I find your response hugely ignorant

I am wondering whether some posters actually watched the report, given sone responses.

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

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

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.

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

Proud, grateful and lucky to be born here in the UK rather than in Afghanistan.

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.

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

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

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 don't think many watched the report at all. She'll marry a relatives son, I'm not sure if arranged marriages are usual but the family member paid for her operation so she would live. I imagine the mother wasn't allowed to speak given the extreme islamist rules. Horrible conditions in which to try to survive. Totally alien from the world in which we live. The children really deserve better, now many can add severe food shortage to their misery.

Animals are treated better in many places. Sadly, many countries have men that keep women pregnant and producing endless children in famine, in conflict, its horrible.

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’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.

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

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

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.