Aid
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Afghanistan needs compassion from world leaders, not politics | Letter
Former UN humanitarian coordinators Martin Barber and Mark Bowden call for support for Afghanistan’s economy, …
- Afghanistan, Aid, Charities, Europe, Humanitarian response, Refugees, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Ukraine
The response to Ukraine is laudable. But as a British Afghan, I’m a little jealous | Nelufar Hedayat
Seven months since Kabul’s fall, my family are still pleading for help. Has the world forgotten this ongoing h…
- Afghanistan, Africa, Aid, Ethiopia, Global development, Humanitarian response, Middle East and North Africa, South and Central Asia, South Sudan, World news, Yemen
‘Take from the hungry to feed the starving’: UN faces awful dilemma
Agencies forced to cut back aid in Yemen, Afghanistan, South Sudan and Ethiopia despite growing need as funds …
- Afghanistan, Aid, Child labour, Children, Global development, Human rights, Humanitarian response, Middle East and North Africa, Poverty, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, World news
Scared, hungry and cold: child workers in Kabul – picture essay
As temperatures fall below freezing, children as young as four trying to make a living on the Afghan capital’s…
- Aid, Humanitarian response, Internally displaced people, Myanmar, Myanmar coup, South and Central Asia, World news
‘I can’t go home’: families hide in Myanmar’s forests as fighting rages
As the military targets civilians and blocks aid, those who have left home to avoid violence risk death to fin…
- Afghanistan, Aid, Education, Gender, Global development, Human rights, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, World news
West plans to tie Afghan teacher aid to girls’ education pledge
Funds will go only to those provinces where girls are in school if Taliban renege on promise, diplomats sayThe…
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Taliban must respect rights of women and children, says UN head
António Guterres also urged release of aid to Afghanistan as humanitarian catastrophe worsensThe Taliban must …
- Afghanistan, Aid, Famine, Foreign policy, Politics, South and Central Asia, Taliban, UK news, World news
Change to aid rules needed to prevent famine in Afghanistan, say UK experts
Former security and diplomatic chiefs warn that country is at risk of economic collapse as Taliban begin talks…
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UK government must act now to save millions of lives in Afghanistan | Letter
Former defence, national security and foreign policy experts lay out five outcomes that the international comm…
- Afghanistan, Aid, Global development, Internally displaced people, Poverty, Social exclusion, South and Central Asia
‘I’ve already sold my daughters; now, my kidney’: winter in Afghanistan’s slums
Crushing poverty is forcing starving displaced people to make desperate choicesThe temperature is dropping to …
- Afghanistan, Aid, Gordon Brown, Liz Truss, Politics, South and Central Asia, Taliban, UK news, United Nations, World news
Gordon Brown calls on Liz Truss to help raise funds for Afghanistan
Former prime minister says country is at risk of famine and UK must take lead in resuming delivery of aid• The…
- Afghanistan, Aid, Foreign policy, Gordon Brown, Politics, Poverty, South and Central Asia, Taliban, UK news, World news
Gordon Brown: west is sleepwalking into Afghanistan disaster
Ex-PM warns poverty and starvation mean country is at risk of world’s biggest humanitarian crisisThe west is “…
- Afghanistan, Aid, Famine, Global development, Humanitarian response, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, United Nations, US foreign policy, US news, World news
US eases restrictions on sending aid to famine-hit Afghanistan
Backing is also given to UN resolution exempting most aid from threat of sanctionsThe US has eased its restric…
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‘More cautious’ China shifts Africa approach from debt to vaccine diplomacy
Analysis: After two decades of major financial aid, Beijing is rethinking its strategy on continent amid Covid…
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Afghanistan faces disaster and ministers don’t seem to care – but Labour does | Stephen Kinnock
The west has a moral duty to help those facing starvation. We demand that the British government lead the wayS…