BBC News, Afghanistan, Selling Children To Survive…

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Link This is the second or third time this has reported on by the BBC - I came on to see if there were any comments as find it so disturbing.
It is reported in such a “neutral” way but it seems like this “selling a daughter” is the “feature not a bug” of women’s status in the Afghanistan. I have never heard this reported from any other famine-struck country - because it’s usually the mothers of the families that are interviewed?
Of course it is a terrible situation but I feel the reporting is complicit to offer this to us as “poor man, he has to sell a child” (the fact that it is going to be the girls that are sold isn’t even in the headline).

Tbh my biggest takeaway from this is that the media will spin any story to make it anti Trump ropaganda, no matter how inappropriate.

Yes.

There is a really important story here which the BBC is not covering which is the bind the aid agencies are in. If they stay they can effectively only treat men and can only have male staff so have to essentially condone the Taliban position that women and girls are not full human beings deserving of human rights. Some have actually stood up and said 'no' but this does mean abandoning the country and those suffering within it. Why are there so few articles about this?

Thank you Cake for the article link - Brendan cuts to the quick as usual! He’s such a clever writer and so succinct.

The Linda Norgrove Foundation supports small scale work in Afghanistan with a direct focus on women and children. It sounds like it’s a difficult balance to strike and make sure women and girls benefit but from their annual reports it seems like they are managing very good work (not involved but do support).