{"id":114329,"date":"2023-05-19T09:20:06","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T06:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/children-bearing-the-brunt-of-afghanistan-crisis-unicef\/"},"modified":"2023-05-19T09:20:06","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T06:20:06","slug":"children-bearing-the-brunt-of-afghanistan-crisis-unicef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/children-bearing-the-brunt-of-afghanistan-crisis-unicef\/","title":{"rendered":"Children bearing the brunt of Afghanistan crisis: UNICEF"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114329\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nWomen and children wait to be seen by members of a UNICEF-supported mobile health and nutrition team in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Roughly 90 per cent of the population in Afghanistan is on the brink of poverty \u201cand children bear the brunt of it,\u201d the Representative of the UN Children\u2019s Fund (UNICEF) in the country, Fran Equiza, told journalists in New York on Thursday. \u201cBecause, in what is a deeply troubled country &#8211; grappling with humanitarian catastrophe, climate related disasters, and egregious human rights abuses &#8211; too many people have forgotten that Afghanistan is a children&#8217;s rights crisis,\u201d he said, warning that the situation is getting worse.<\/p>\n<p>This year, some 2.3 million Afghan boys and girls are expected to face acute malnutrition. Of this number, 875,000 will need treatment for severe acute malnutrition, a life-threatening condition. Furthermore, around 840,000 pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers are likely to experience acute malnutrition, jeopardising their ability to give their babies the best start in life.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Equiza added that although fighting has mostly stopped, decades of conflict mean that every day, children\u2019s rights are violated \u201cin the most appalling ways\u201d. He said Afghanistan is among the most \u201cweapons-contaminated countries\u201d in the world, and most of the casualties are children. He cited preliminary data which suggests that 134 children were killed or maimed by explosive devices between January and March of this year. \u201cThis is the reality of the escalating danger faced by Afghan children as they explore areas that were previously inaccessible due to fighting,\u201d he said. &#8220;Many of those killed and maimed are children collecting scrap metal to sell. Because that\u2019s what poverty does. It compels you to send your children to work &#8211; not because you want to, but\u202fbecause you have to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, roughly 1.6 million Afghan children \u2013 some as young as six &#8211; are trapped in child labour, working in dangerous conditions just to help their parents put food on the table. &#8220;And where education used to be a symbol of hope, children\u2019s right to learn is under attack,\u201d Mr. Equiza added. \u201cGirls across Afghanistan have been denied their right to learn for over three years now \u2013 first, due to COVID-19 and then, since September 2021, because of the ban on attending secondary school. I don\u2019t need to tell you of the impact of these absences on their mental health.\u201d He underlined UNICEF\u2019s commitment to stay and deliver for the women and children in Afghanistan, where it has had a presence for nearly 75 years. With needs growing every day, he called for greater support from the international community, noting that UNICEF\u2019s Humanitarian Action for Children Appeal is only 22 percent funded.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2023\/05\/1136797\">The UN<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/children-bearing-the-brunt-of-afghanistan-crisis-unicef\/\">Children bearing the brunt of Afghanistan crisis: UNICEF<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[5239,1300,425,2323,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-114329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-afganistan","tag-children","tag-crisis","tag-unicef","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}