Afghanistan’s twin human rights and humanitarian crises

For the reason that U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, 40 million Afghans have been coping with each a repressive regime and unprecedented financial hardship. Afghan residents’ on a regular basis lives have been upended by the nation’s two concurrent crises: a human rights disaster because of the Taliban’s restrictions on ladies’s capacity to work and its ban on women’ training past elementary faculty, and a dire humanitarian disaster, which has left two-thirds of the nation in want of humanitarian help and an estimated 6 million individuals “knocking on famine’s door.”

On Tuesday, April 25, the Middle for Center East Coverage at Brookings will convene a panel of specialists to debate these points and look at the coverage choices and challenges for the US and the worldwide group as they reply to those crises.

Viewers can submit questions by emailing occasions@brookings.edu or by becoming a member of the dialog on Twitter with #AfghanCrises.