The Taliban have inherited databases and technology that could be used to identify people linked to previous regimes or international forces, or members of persecuted groups who have received aid.
What lessons should humanitarians take away from the past 20 years in Afghanistan? Was the role of Western aid agencies helpful or hurtful? Were they impartial or complicit?
In its rush to help Afghanistan, the humanitarian world risks superimposing costly, parallel systems that ignore what already exists: a functioning public health sector, Afghan NGOs waiting for support, and aid agencies that have operated amid a complex crisis for years. The West always acts like it knows better at the cost of local empowerment.
The world is moving in the wrong direction and faces “a pivotal moment” where continuing business as usual could lead to a breakdown of global order and a future of perpetual crisis.
This sums up the future of Afghanistan. 250,000 lives lost, 20 years lost, trillions spent, and the United States managed to replace the Taliban and Al Qaeda with the Taliban, Al Qaeda and Haqqani as Interior Minister.
Even before the quake, millions of Haitians needed urgent food aid, while the south was still rebuilding from a devastating 2016 hurricane.
Millions are at risk of losing access to vital services as donors suspend support for government programmes under the Taliban.
Black children have access to just 1 cent for every dollar enjoyed by their white counterparts, new research shows, and Hispanic kids fare little...
Please do what you can to contribute to the Afghan Evacuation & Resettlement Fund. Without it we will not save these brilliant minds and change agents from the crushing and dehumanizing blows of the Taliban.
We cannot look away. We must support these people who have contributed significantly to their country’s effort to develop through the powers of journalism, awareness building and women and human rights advocacy. The 13th century has returned, slaying musicians, journalists, enemy sympathizers, and rights activists but progress will win over the backwardness of isolationist oppression and reactionary extremism.
After a thirty-four-hour sleepless marathon, we finally got three CSFilm colleagues and their families through the hell of the Taliban checkpoints...
Studying this google image to try and learn how my Afghan friends, trainees, mentors, beloved people can get out of this terror. They must reach...
From the Haitian Artists Institute: Here we share a list of a few trusted, local, Haitian-led organizations working in the affected regions should you want to help the relief efforts. These groups have our full confidence.