{"id":27957,"date":"2025-03-29T15:40:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T15:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=27957"},"modified":"2025-03-29T15:40:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T15:40:16","slug":"australia-allocates-5-million-to-support-afghan-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2025\/03\/australia-allocates-5-million-to-support-afghan-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia allocates $5 million to support Afghan women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; The Australian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced a $5 million allocation from the Australian government to support women and girls in Afghanistan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a statement issued on Friday, the ministry revealed that Australia would provide $11 million in humanitarian aid for civilians in Gaza and an additional $15 million for critical support to those affected in Myanmar and Afghanistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The statement mentioned that out of this budget, $5 million would be dedicated to empowering United Nations partners in Afghanistan to provide health services to women and girls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Penny Wong, Australia&#8217;s Foreign Minister, emphasized that the country remains steadfast in its support for the women and girls of Afghanistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This announcement comes amid ongoing concerns from humanitarian organizations about the severe shortage of funding to address humanitarian needs in Afghanistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced a $5 million allocation from the Australian government to support women and girls in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":27958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[984,194,200,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-democracy-human-rights","category-afghanistan","category-headline"],"views":85,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27959,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27957\/revisions\/27959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}