NGO Chief Sees 'Hypocrisy' in Afghan Women's Rights Calls Amid Aid Cuts
Jan Egeland said donors should not cut food and education aid while pressing the Taliban to restore girls’ rights.
- On Thursday in Kabul, Norwegian Refugee Council Secretary General Jan Egeland criticized Western governments' "hypocrisy" for demanding rights for Afghan women while cutting humanitarian aid.
- Funding shortages forced the NRC to lay off female aid workers and teachers as the United Nations reports receiving less than 30 percent of required life-saving assistance as of late August.
- Approximately 175 centers combating gender-based violence have closed, affecting 1 million people, leaving humanitarian groups feeling "utterly alone" on the front lines.
- Egeland warned Taliban authorities that banning girls' education creates a future "catastrophe," leaving Afghanistan without skilled female teachers, nurses, doctors, or midwives.
- Governments in Europe and North America should reopen embassies and engage with Taliban authorities, Egeland urged, to "demand rights for women and girls, but also offer assistance.
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The West has failed the people of Afghanistan since the US withdrew from the country five years ago, says Jan Egeland, secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). “The situation is desperate, especially for women and children. The US and other NATO countries have broken their promise not to abandon them,” he says.
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NGO 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…
Countries demanding rights for Afghan women while cutting aid is ‘hypocrisy’: NRC'S head
Jan Egeland, head of the Norwegian Refugee Council, denounces what he calls hypocrisy as countries demand rights for Afghan women while simultaneously reducing humanitarian aid. He argues for consistent support to ensure education and work rights for Afghan women.
Report from Kabul: NRC Head Jan Egeland on Global Aid Cuts, Poverty & Taliban Repression of Women
In the five years since the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan following the complete withdrawal of U.S. troops from the country, millions of Afghan refugees have been forced out of neighboring Iran and Pakistan, where they had been living and “dumped at the border” without immediate access to food, water or shelter. At the same time, conditions for women and girls in Afghanistan continue to deteriorate, as basic rights to education, freedom of movement and access to services are
Jan Egeland, the head of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), has criticized the reduction in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, saying that the budget cuts for services for girls and women in the country are catastrophic. The post Jan Egeland: The reduction in aid for girls and women in Afghanistan is catastrophic appeared first on Rakhshaneh Media.
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