military campaign here, and billions also on promises to this population. they need to be able to have some attention not only on ukraine but also on the afghanistan situation where they have their fingerprints all over. but also the taliban need to understand that unless they change, there will be a collapse in aid work here and millions and millions have only humanitarian aid to rely on. and, jan, as you know, we are seeing the humanitarian crisis in ukraine escalate. of course the situation in sudan continues to deteriorate. there is somalia, there is yemen, there are so many disasters across the globe. are you worried, though, that everything you are saying now, it could happen given that there are some of other places as well that are looking for donor funds. it s happening, yes, before our eyes.
there is one operation where we are reasonably well funded in the world and that is ukraine. and then full stop. one crisis after the other, we are severely overstretched and underfunded. i could add the democratic republic of the congo to your list, which is up there with afghanistan and yemen as the largest humanitarian crises on the planet, with more people affected by hunger and suffering than even ukraine. and we are not getting the attention to it. it s like the world is turning their back on tens of millions of people that are actually in a freefall. we are not turning our back. we are here to fight for women s rights, for gender equality, for basic human rights and for resumption of large scale aid to a population that deserves it more than any other.
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widow led households because of this ban on our female colleagues that came five months ago. what i say is we are working now, we are finalising now guidelines for how to again have women enter our workforce. theirfinalising guidelines for how to resume female education, and then when i say, well, how soon is soon because it has to happen tomorrow? so they say we cannot guarantee the date, i then asked for interim measures and i m glad to see that at least in kandahar we will now be able to enter negotiations on an interim solution that will bring females back to work so that we can reach the women in need in afghanistan. yeah, i was in kandahar about 12 months ago. i went into hospitals where children were suffering from malnutrition, they were women suffering from a nutrition, some of the hospital
football commentator speaking to be earlierfrom rio. afghanistan remains one of the world s worst humanitarian disasters. two thirds of the country s population is food insecure with almost a million children facing acute malnutrition. we continue to hear that women and girls remain most at risk. aid agencies face the difficult balancing act of attempting to fulfil their responsiblities to the afghan people by keeping aid flowing to those most in need and also continuing to keep the pressure on the taliban to end human rights violations and restrictions on women and girls. the secretary general of the norwegian refugee council, jan egeland. well, i m in kandahar now, in southern afghanistan, precisely because the reason that the supreme leadership of the taliban sits here, and we are engaging with them directly to get an end to the ban on female at work in humanitarian