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The Taliban deny that they use violence and other pressure to monitor the distribution of international humanitarian aid in Afghanistan, responding to the report of the American supervisory authority describing extensive manipulations with resources.
The report on the 118th page of a special inspector for the reconstruction of Afghanistan (Sigar) says that the Taliban use their regulatory authority to decide which non -governmental organizations can work and under what conditions. According to the conclusion, assistance is systematically aimed at communities due to ethnic minorities of hazelnuts and meters, while organizations are forced to cooperate with people and companies adjacent to the regime.
Some registered incidents are shocking: the Afghan employee of the NGO is allegedly killed because he revealed food assistance in training camps for fighters. The report also includes possible manipulation of the equality of currency, the creation of illegal profit from the auction of the currency and complaints of “starvation” in cooperation with the heads of the UN.
Taliban reaction and the role of the UN
The Ministry of Economics, which controls the NGO, denies any category, arguing that assistance is directly provided by international organizations and the UN without the intervention of the Taliban. “We support transparency and a decrease in poverty,” said press secretary Abdul Rahman Khabib.
For its part, the UN admits that the environmental assistance environment is “extremely complex”, and guarantees that all complaints of inept management and corruption have been examined immediately.
In target women
The report also records serious restrictions on women: a ban on NPO women, a ban on bank accounts, exclusion from the position of responsibility and the obligation to accompany the relative even for the heads of the UN.
Since December 2022, the Taliban forbid women to work on NGOs, and six months later also expanded the ban on the UN, threatening to close every non -membrane organ.
Country in the humanitarian crisis
According to international organizations, more than 23 million people – more than half of the population of Afghanistan – are currently dependent on humanitarian assistance, since the country is faced with the consequences of decades of war, economic collapse and climatic crises.
More sources • AP.