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Afghanistan: aid without women

Afghanistan: aid without women

FromInside Geneva


Afghanistan: aid without women

FromInside Geneva

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Length:
25 minutes
Released:
Jan 10, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

The Taliban have banned women from working for aid agencies. This week on the Inside Geneva podcast, host Imogen Foulkes asks humanitarians what this means for Afghanistan’s future.“How can women be able to receive healthcare when there are no women doctors?” asks Adam Combs of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC).Afghan women and girls are banned from secondary school and university too.“If there is no woman attending school, and then university, who will be tomorrow’s doctors, tomorrow’s midwives, nurses?” asks Filipe Ribeiro of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).28 million people in Afghanistan need humanitarian aid, 6 million are close to famine. Why is the focus on restricting what women do?“These are acts committed for the purpose of establishing dominance and systematic oppression by men over women in all aspects of public life as well as private life,” says Pooja Patel of the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR).Get in touch! Email us at insidegeneva@swissinfo.ch Twitter: @ImogenFoulkes and @swissinfo_en Thank you for listening! If you like what we do, please leave a review.
Released:
Jan 10, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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A podcast from SWI swissinfo.ch, a multilingual international public service media company from Switzerland, where Imogen Foulkes puts big questions facing the world to the experts working to tackle them in Switzerland’s international city.