NGO Chief Sees 'Hypocrisy' in Afghan Women's Rights Calls Amid Aid Cuts
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rtl.luNGO chief sees 'hypocrisy' in Afghan women's rights calls amid aid cuts
Afghanistan has seen a sharp decline in international aid since 2021, when the Taliban authorities returned to power. They have since imposed a series of rules limiting women's access to education and public life. In an interview with AFP in Kabul, Egeland said that it was right of foreign countries "to demand, like we do, education for Afghan girls, work rights for Afghan women". "But it is hypocrisy when one does that from abroad in a seminar …
"It is good that they ask, like us, for the right to education and work for Afghan women (...), but it is hypocrisy when we do this in a seminar in a European capital while cutting off the aid that is used to feed or support the primary education of Afghan girls," said Jan Egeland in an interview with the AFP. International aid for Afghanistan has fallen free since the return to power of the Taliban authorities in 2021 while the population of th…
According to the UN, less than 30% of the necessary resources in the plan to address the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan were collected by the end of August.
KABUL - Jan Egeland, secretary-general of the humanitarian organization Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), criticized the "hypocrisy" of countries that demand rights for Afghan women while at the same time limiting humanitarian aid to Kabul in an interview with AFP on Thursday.
Countries demanding rights for Afghan women while cutting aid is ‘hypocrisy’: NRC’S head
KABUL (AFP) : The head of the Norwegian Refugee Council aid group, Jan Egeland, criticised on Thursday what he called the “hypocrisy” of countries demanding rights for Afghan women while cutting humanitarian assistance. In an interview with AFP in Kabul, Egeland said that “I think it’s right of them to demand, like we do, education […]
The Secretary-General of the non-governmental organization Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), Jan Egeland, accused today from Kabul of “hypocrisy” those countries that demand rights for Afghan women while at the same time cutting off vital humanitarian aid for women in Afghanistan. “It is good that (the countries of the NRC) are demanding, like us, the right to education and […]
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