After the U.S. military withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021 the Taliban seized control of the country. In response the International Monetary Fund and major international donors to the country blocked the Taliban’s access to billions of dollars in charitable bank accounts. More than half of Afghanistan’s annual $5 billion budget is from foreign aid. Despite its puritanical brand of Islam, the Taliban controls the world’s largest opium operation, earning about $460 million a year from taxes on the sale of heroin moving through their territories alone, the U.N. says.…
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no but aid ngo's that operate in Afghanistan
@93B7SFK3yrs3Y
Only if they commit to a reinstatement of women's rights
Yes subject to human rights and gender equality obligations
@8ZP8PFFSocial Democrats3yrs3Y
No, the Taliban government can't be trusted to use aid money in good faith, but sanctions should be lifted as they only hurt the people.
no but remove the blockade on the country for trade
@8Z2BNQ83yrs3Y
Yes, but it should be conditional on the human rights standards. If Afghanistan promises to progress out from the ways of old and improve the life of all its citizens we should offer a helping hand.
@983X5HPFianna Fáil2yrs2Y
No to the Taliban but more aid for Afghanis
@97XR96W2yrs2Y
Yes, with a hell of a lot of strings attached.
@97Q84D42yrs2Y
We need to provide humanitarian aid to Afghanistan but in no circumstance should we promote the violent regime of the Taliban the Taliban should never have return to Afghanistan
@978QXVS2yrs2Y
If its showed to be an effective method of dealing with the Taliban then yes.
@93PVXNZ3yrs3Y
Only if the situation in Afghanistan gets worse and food shortage and drought become common place
@926VCKK3yrs3Y
I do not think that providing financial aid directly to the Taliban will aid those most in need, I think that other humanitarian aid would be more suitable, for example, sustainable ways of producing food as well as emergency food and medical supplies.
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