This is fine, but in light of the fact that the Taliban seizes most of the aid, none at all should be sent.
“Taliban Edicts, Donation Decline Prompt $1 Billion Cut in UN Aid to Afghanistan,” by Akmal Dawi, VOA News, June 20, 2023:
WASHINGTON — Amid unresolved wrangling with Taliban authorities over women’s right to work and education and a decline in donor funding, the United Nations has cut its humanitarian aid request for Afghanistan by more than $1 billion, forcing aid agencies to stop giving critical assistance to millions of people.
In March, the U.N. belatedly launched a Humanitarian Response Plan, or HRP, for Afghanistan, asking donors for $4.6 billion in funding to assist more than 23 million of the most vulnerable Afghans this year. The appeal’s launch was delayed for two months following a Taliban announcement in December banning Afghan women from working at U.N. agencies.
Women in Afghanistan are barred from education and work indefinitely due to “religious and cultural considerations,” Taliban officials say.
Several aid agencies suspended operations in response to the ban on women’s work as donors warned there would be consequences for the Taliban regime.
A mid-year review of the HRP has resulted in significant adjustments in the required funding and the number of beneficiaries it will assist.
“The revised HRP aims to reach 20 million people with multi-sectoral assistance between June and December 2023, requiring $2.26 billion in new funding,” the U.N. said last week.
Consequently, the revised funding appeal now totals just over $3.2 billion, including $942 million (with $850 million carried over from last year) that has been already expended to aid 17.3 million people between January and May of this year.
“Only a fraction of the appeal has been responded to favorably, so that’s the reason that the program had to be cut,” Richard Hoffman, director of ACBAR, a coordination platform for NGOs in Afghanistan, told VOA….
Bexarkat says
Not to worry, Joe Biden will make up the difference…I am quite sure.
tim gallagher says
How badly are things going in Afghanistan under the loathsome, knuckle dragging taliban? I know that the Taliban are an appalling bunch of primitives, but I hadn’t taken much notice of what was happening in Afghanistan. Yesterday, in Australia, I was watching some TV and an advertisement came on for one of the charities that try to save infants and children. I’m not sure which one it was. Could have been “Save the Children”. It was appealing for donations for a mother and infant who was close to dying from malnutrition and it was in Afghanistan. It was a horrible situation seeing the infant close to death. It made me think that the Taliban have completely fucked up the economic situation in Afghanistan. No surprise there. i can imagine the Taliban scum would steal any aid received.
OLD GUY says
The UN and America should stop all aid to islamic countries and dictatorships.
Pray Hard says
Superjoe to the rescue!