{"id":136708,"date":"2025-01-20T09:15:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T07:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/norwegian-refugee-council-chief-says-aid-cuts-biggest-threat-to-afghanistans-women\/"},"modified":"2025-01-20T09:15:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T07:15:28","slug":"norwegian-refugee-council-chief-says-aid-cuts-biggest-threat-to-afghanistans-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/norwegian-refugee-council-chief-says-aid-cuts-biggest-threat-to-afghanistans-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwegian Refugee Council chief says aid cuts biggest threat to Afghanistan\u2019s women"},"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\/136708\" \/>\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\">\n<p>The Taliban takeover in August 2021 drove millions into poverty and hunger after foreign aid was cut off almost overnight. Funding cuts to Afghanistan are the biggest threat to helping the country&#8217;s women, the chief of a top aid agency has warned. Jan Egeland, the secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, said women and girls were bearing the brunt of dwindling financial support for non-governmental groups and humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;We see one after the other peer organization cutting programming and staff in the last two years. The biggest threat to programs helping Afghan women is funding cuts. The biggest threat to the future well-being of Afghan women is education,\u201d said Egeland.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban takeover in August 2021 drove millions into poverty and hunger after foreign aid was cut off almost overnight. Sanctions against the country&#8217;s new rulers, a halt on bank transfers and frozen billions in Afghanistan\u2019s currency reserves have cut off access to global institutions and the outside money that supported the aid-dependent economy before the withdrawal of US and NATO forces.<\/p>\n<p>The UN and other bodies have urged the international community to continue supporting Afghanistan. Organisations like the Norwegian Refugee Council have helped keep public services afloat through education and health care programs, including nutrition and immunisation. But women and girls face more obstacles in accessing health care and education because of restrictions imposed by the Taliban and an ongoing shortage of female medical professionals.<\/p>\n<p>Egeland said Afghan women and girls had not forgotten world leaders telling them their &#8221;number one priority&#8221; was education and human rights. &#8221;Now we can&#8217;t even fund livelihood programming for widows and single mothers,&#8221; he told The Associated Press by telephone from the western province of Herat. The international community provided humanitarian assistance in many countries where they disagreed with local policies.<\/p>\n<p>But opposition to Taliban policies, together with a &#8221;general starving&#8221; of aid funding in many countries, was worsening the shortfall in Afghanistan, he said. Egeland said most of his discussions with Taliban officials on his trip were about the need to resume classes for women and girls. &#8221;They still argue that it will happen but the conditions are not right,&#8221; he said. &#8221;They say they need to agree on what the conditions are.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/01\/20\/norwegian-refugee-council-chief-says-aid-cuts-biggest-threat-to-afghanistans-women\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vauen\/norwegian-refugee-council-chief-says-aid-cuts-biggest-threat-to-afghanistans-women\/\">Norwegian Refugee Council chief says aid cuts biggest threat to Afghanistan\u2019s women<\/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":[1045,17639,606,607,608,568],"class_list":["post-136708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-afghanistan","tag-norwegian-refugee-council","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136708","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=136708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}