{"id":42632,"date":"2022-03-19T19:00:23","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T10:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2022\/mar\/19\/response-ukraine-laudable-british-afghan-jealous-kabul-crisis"},"modified":"2022-03-19T19:00:23","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T10:00:23","slug":"the-response-to-ukraine-is-laudable-but-as-a-british-afghan-im-a-little-jealous-nelufar-hedayat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42632","title":{"rendered":"The response to Ukraine is laudable. But as a British Afghan, I\u2019m a little jealous | Nelufar Hedayat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven months since Kabul\u2019s fall, my family are still pleading for help. Has the world forgotten this ongoing humanitarian crisis?<\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s attention is focused on the conflict in Ukraine. But, as someone born in Afghanistan, the catastrophic events since the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/15\/the-fall-of-kabul-a-20-year-mission-collapses-in-a-single-day\">fall of Kabul<\/a> are still uppermost in my mind.<\/p>\n<p>In those tumultuous days last August, the bustle of the capital city evaporated. The new Taliban government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-59368488\">banned women<\/a> from public spaces for decency reasons. Speaking out or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/24\/world\/asia\/afghan-women-taliban-protests.html\">protesting<\/a> was met with harsh beatings and threats of maiming and murder. Gone, too, was outdoor music, or women walking around their city <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/afghanistan-country-policy-and-information-notes\/country-police-and-information-note-fear-of-the-taliban-afghanistan-february-2022-accessible\">without a male escort<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nelufar Hedayat is an Afghan-British journalist, and presenter and co-director of the documentary In Real Life: the God Thieves<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2022\/mar\/19\/response-ukraine-laudable-british-afghan-jealous-kabul-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven months since Kabul\u2019s fall, my family are still pleading for help. Has the world forgotten this ongoing humanitarian crisis?The world\u2019s attention is focused on the conflict in Ukraine. But, as someone born in Afghanistan, the catastrophic events s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2969,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,247,2190,221,393,494,61,44,930],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-aid","category-charities","category-europe","category-humanitarian-response","category-refugees","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-ukraine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2969"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42633,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42632\/revisions\/42633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}