Afghans face a humanitarian crisis without food and money and in desperation sell organs and children in order to survive.
Family members struggle to keep their heads above water, and Afghans underwent surgery and sold their kidneys for around Rs 1,15,461 ($1,539) each in order to afford food. The condition deteriorated even more compared to the Taliban’s political takeover in August 2021, after the fall of the USA-backed former Ashraf Ghani government. An article from New York Post, Reuters shares about this in detail: Afghans forced to sell children, organs during Taliban takeover, starvation
According to the reports from Afghanistan, families are selling their organs such as kidneys and even their own children, including the girl child, in order to buy food as the economy crumbles due to the pandemic into the third year.
Afghans were marooned alone, without jobs or a source of income. Houses made of mud and clay lack basic amenities such as electricity, water, and heating systems and the winters have been harsh and extremely cold.
In all this, reports are pouring out that women in Afghanistan are fighting for their rights to work, education, and political participation in politics as there is no stability and justice without the involvement of women in politics who add a whole new dimension to the political arena.
Movement Of Change For #Afghanistan has held a rally in #Kabul city to demand access to work, education, and political participation of the women in Afghanistan.
“There will be no stability and justice without the participation of women in power & politics,” said the protestors.
Movement Of Change For #Afghanistan has held a rally in #Kabul city to demand access to work, education, and political participation of the women in Afghanistan. "There will be no stability and justice without the participation of women in power & politics," said the protestors. pic.twitter.com/DTOPSSNNkc — Payk Media – Revealing the Truth (@PaykMedia) March 12, 2022
Shabia Mantoo, spokesperson for the United Nations Refugee Agency wrote, “The humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan is one of the gravest injustices in the world today.”
The humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan is one of the gravest injustices in the world today. https://t.co/ss6ZY2J29F — Shabia Mantoo (@Shabia_M) March 13, 2022
Habib Khan, Award-winning Afghan journalist founder of Afghan Peace Watch, formerly with The Wall Street Journal wrote, “Since the invasion of Taliban, almost 1.5m Afghans have left the country and counting. If borders are open, the whole nation will leave Afghanistan. Everybody is escaping from the so-called Islamic Emirate. Obviously, people despise the Taliban regime.”
Since the invasion of Taliban, almost 1.5m Afghans have left the country and counting. If borders are open, the whole nation will leave Afghanistan. Everybody is escaping from the so called Islamic Emirate. Obviously, people despise the Taliban regime.#FreeAfghanistan https://t.co/X7J6UjrIdF — Habib Khan (@HabibKhanT) March 13, 2022
Due to the crisis, India, a long-time ally of Afghanistan helps. Over the last few decades, India, a good friend of Afghanistan helped elevate the Afghans out of poverty, had provided drinking water to 2 million residents of Kabul, and like the US, signed 150 projects worth Rs 592 crore ($80 million) and was involved in rebuilding and reconstructing Afghanistan, which is now mostly in ruins under the new Taliban regime.
“Responding to appeal by #UN for humanitarian assistance to #Afghanistan, India had promised to send50,000MT of wheat,to be transferred overland via #Pakistan. On 8 Mar,3rd convoy carrying2000MT of wheat left for #Jalalabad,🇦🇫
Responding to appeal by #UN for humanitarian assistance to #Afghanistan,🇮🇳had promised to send50,000MT of wheat,to be transferred overland via #Pakistan.On 8 Mar,3rd convoy carrying2000MT of wheat left for #Jalalabad,🇦🇫#ICWAViewPoint👉https://t.co/cHfYrg2KMA by Dr @AnweshaGosh pic.twitter.com/I3GFChPvpl — ICWA (@ICWA_NewDelhi) March 11, 2022
A heartbreaking video of a weeping starving child is shared as she painfully cries from hunger and fear. There must be thousands of children like her in the same plight.
This is absolutely not fair. #Afghanistan pic.twitter.com/lAxpYHFmrt — Humira Noorestani (@Humiralaw) March 9, 2022
This is the Afghanistan that the US invested in for 20 years, pouring in billions of dollars to “rebuild it”, amid bloodshed and war, loss of thousands of lives while raising up the hopes and dreams of the Afghans and ultimately abandoned them to a disastrous end when they left Afghanistan abruptly, freezing their accounts, offering no help to ward off the Taliban takeover, leaving the nation bankrupt and not self-reliant, forsaken to smoking ruins, devastation, and poverty. Afghanistan is now a land so desolate that the only source of income in many places is reduced to some Afghans selling their own organs and their own children. The United Nations declares this the center of the globe’s “worst humanitarian disaster”.
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