Funding cuts to Afghanistan are the biggest threat to helping women, aid agency chief warns
- Funding cuts to Afghanistan are the biggest threat to helping the country's women, according to Jan Egeland, Secretary-General of the Norwegian Refugee Council.
- The Norwegian Refugee Council helped 772,484 Afghans in 2022, but that number fell to 491,435 in 2023, with half of its beneficiaries being women.
- Egeland stated that women and girls in Afghanistan face more obstacles in accessing health care and education due to restrictions and a shortage of female medical professionals.
- Egeland emphasized that the biggest threat to the future well-being of Afghan women is the lack of education and dwindling financial support for humanitarian assistance.
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Cutting Afghanistan funds 'biggest threat to helping women,' aid chief warns
Jan Egeland, secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, said women and girls were bearing the brunt of dwindling financial support for nongovernmental groups and humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan

Funding cuts to Afghanistan are the biggest threat to helping women, aid agency chief warns
The head of a major international aid agency is warning that funding cuts to Afghanistan are the biggest threat to helping the country’s women. The Taliban takeover in 2021 drove
Funding cuts to Afghanistan are the biggest threat to helping women, aid agency chief warns - Regional Media News
Funding cuts to Afghanistan are the biggest threat to helping the country’s women, the chief of a top aid agency warned Sunday. Jan Egeland, the secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, said women and girls were bearing the brunt of dwindling financial support for nongovernmental groups and humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan. The NRC helped 772,484 Afghans in 2022. That number fell to 491,435 in 2023. Last year, the aid agency hel…
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