{"id":47464,"date":"2022-08-15T08:01:22","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T23:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/15\/afghanistan-ngo-assets-unfrozen-end-near-universal-poverty"},"modified":"2022-08-15T08:01:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T23:01:22","slug":"afghanistan-ngos-call-for-assets-to-be-unfrozen-to-end-near-universal-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47464","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan: NGOs call for assets to be unfrozen to end \u2018near universal poverty\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One year since the Taliban regained power, charities say urgent action needed to address economic crisis<\/p>\n<p>One year on from the Taliban\u2019s takeover of Afghanistan, a group of 32 Afghan and international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are urging the international community not to abandon the country\u2019s people, but instead address the root causes of the its economic crisis, stand up for human rights and increase humanitarian aid.<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting a concern that the deep ideological deadlock between the Taliban and the international community is consigning millions of Afghans to destitution, they call for a clear roadmap that will lead to the restoration of the basic functions of the Afghan central bank and the release of Afghanistan\u2019s assets frozen abroad, mainly in the US. The NGOs call for the disbursement of badly needed Afghan banknotes that have been printed but are impounded in Poland.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/15\/afghanistan-ngo-assets-unfrozen-end-near-universal-poverty\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One year since the Taliban regained power, charities say urgent action needed to address economic crisisOne year on from the Taliban\u2019s takeover of Afghanistan, a group of 32 Afghan and international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are urging the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"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":[46,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47464","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\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47465,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47464\/revisions\/47465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}