カテゴリー: Aid
As its economy implodes and the food crisis grows, its people feel betrayed. No wonderThe global attention has dissipated, but the crisis is intensifying. The bleak year that Afghans have endured is turning to a still bleaker winter. The UN World Food …
Women’s rights activists fear for their lives as Afghanistan’s new rulers infiltrate, detain, beat and torture groups of protestersA month ago, Reshmin was busy organising protests against Taliban rule in online groups of hundreds of fellow women’s rig…
The Taliban are showing their true colours. The people face a desperate struggle for basic rights – and for survivalEven as the Taliban swept into Kabul in August – and even given their record in other parts of Afghanistan – some clung to hope, suggest…
It is the government’s duty to help avert a humanitarian and human rights catastrophe, say Elizabeth Winter, Stephanie Draper and Christine AllenAs a new secretary of state, Liz Truss, takes the reins at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office…
Evacuation of employees, not contractors, ‘splitting hairs’, says HRW, warning of days left to save livesAfghan employees who worked as contractors on UK aid projects fear for their lives after not being granted resettlement in Britain.The Guardian has…
The most vulnerable people will bear the cost of sanctions, as services and the economy collapseWatching Afghanistan’s unfolding trauma, I’ve thought a lot about Mumtaz Ahmed, a young teacher I met a few years ago. Her family fled Kabul during Taliban …
Unicef says hundreds of children have been separated from their families in chaos of Kabul evacuationAccess to food aid and other life-saving services in Afghanistan is close to running out, the United Nations has warned, as concern mounts that the cou…
Covid, climate breakdown, poverty and war threaten return to school after pandemic kept 1.5bn children out of classes‘Their future could be destroyed’: the global struggle for schooling after Covid closuresThe education of hundreds of millions of child…
As the group prepares to announce a government, it may have to count on its former foes to finance its futureThe Taliban took Afghanistan in a lightning advance through its capitals, exposing the weakness of the Kabul government and humbling the US and…
World Food Programme calls for urgent aid as chaos of Taliban takeover and second drought in three years create dire humanitarian situationUN agencies have warned of food shortages to Afghanistan as early as September without urgent aid funding, as it …
Data analysis highlights the human cost if thousands of overseas projects lose fundingExperts have warned of “devastating” consequences of the UK’s foreign aid cuts after Guardian analysis revealed the UK is cutting funding at a time when major recipie…
At least 21,000 refugees displaced after heavy rain devastates Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, the latest in a series of disasters to hit the areaThe process of rebuilding has begun once again for Rohingya refugees living in camps in Bangladesh after a week o…
As women and children lose out on programmes that could change their lives, Britain’s reputation has been diminishedBukola Onyishi was delighted when she found out that the British government was going to help her realise a dream in one of the poorest …