{"id":7207,"date":"2021-12-05T01:04:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T01:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=7207"},"modified":"2021-12-05T01:04:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T01:04:30","slug":"afghanistan-on-the-brink-of-a-humanitarian-catastrophe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2021\/12\/afghanistan-on-the-brink-of-a-humanitarian-catastrophe\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan on the brink of \u201ca humanitarian catastrophe\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_pb_section et_pb_section_3 et_section_regular\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_2 et_pb_gutters1\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et_pb_column_2 et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et-last-child\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_2 et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\">\n<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; Afghanistan is on the brink of as \u201ca humanitarian catastrophe\u201d as the effects of an imploding economy are being felt across society.<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan was facing a convergence of crises even before the Taliban took power in August. A severe drought was withering crops, the socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic had increased poverty and the country\u2019s long-running conflict had left over 3 million Afghans internally displaced.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Afghanistan is on the brink of what the UN Special Representative Deborah Lyons has described as \u201ca humanitarian catastrophe\u201d. The effects of an imploding economy are being felt across society, but those already forced from their homes by the conflict are particularly vulnerable.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_section et_pb_section_6 ds-advent-25-section containedbkg sectiontest et_pb_section_parallax et_section_regular\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_5 et_pb_row_fullwidth et_pb_equal_columns et_pb_gutters1\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et_pb_column_7 et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et-last-child\">\n<div>In a report, the UNHCR noted that o<span class=\"et_pb_image_wrap \">f some 668,000 Afghans displaced by fighting since the start of this year, some 50,000 fled to Kabul, the capital. The city is located at an altitude of 1,800 metres and during winter temperatures here often dip to well below 0\u00b0 Celsius at night. While some have returned to their home areas in recent weeks, others remain fearful or have no homes to return to.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Many will spend the cold winter months in makeshift shelters or crammed into unheated rented rooms, wondering how they will afford their next meal.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Over 4 million children in Afghanistan are now out of school and the dire economic situation is pushing more families to send their children out to work. Reports of child marriage are also on the rise, according to UNICEF.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The drought and resulting poor harvest have worsened the situation, with food stocks predicted to run out by mid-winter. Soaring unemployment and food costs have pushed 22.8 million people, over half the country\u2019s population of 40 million, into hunger.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_section et_pb_section_15 ds-advent-25-section containedbkg et_pb_section_parallax et_section_regular\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_18\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et_pb_column_26 et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et-last-child\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_10 et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_dark\">\n<p>According to UNICEF, around 3.2 million Afghan children under five are acutely malnourished\u202fand\u202f1.1 million are at risk of dying from severe, acute malnutrition without treatment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; Afghanistan is on the brink of as \u201ca humanitarian catastrophe\u201d as the effects of an imploding economy are being felt across society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,18,200,5,8,4,7],"tags":[12,13,666],"class_list":["post-7207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soceity","category-peace","category-democracy-human-rights","category-politics_","category-governance","category-news_","category-headline","tag-afghanistan","tag-taliban","tag-humanitarian"],"views":516,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7207","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}