At a conference it hosts today, the United Nations will call for $600 million (DW) to fund humanitarian programs in Afghanistan through December. Around two-thirds of health facilities in the country are part of a World Bank–administered project from which donors paused funding (NYT) after the Taliban’s takeover last month.
While many governments have yet to determine the terms of their engagement with the new Taliban administration, UN refugee chief Filippo Grandi arrived in Kabul today (EFE) to meet with officials and assess the needs of displaced Afghans. Ahead of today’s donor conference, Germany’s development minister called for a $12 billion UN fund (Bloomberg) to focus on global crisis prevention.
“Afghanistan sits at a health crossroads. How the Taliban and the international community respond will preserve or reverse twenty years of health gains for 38 million people,” CFR’s Samantha Kiernan and Columbia University’s Serena Tohme write for Think Global Health.
“If Biden is serious about returning human rights to the center of U.S. foreign policy, as he reiterated this week, those Afghans who remain in their home country must be supported,” Foreign Policy’s Elise Labott writes.
This In Brief looks at where Afghan refugees will go.
