{"id":1254527,"date":"2022-01-29T17:08:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T22:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1254527"},"modified":"2022-01-29T17:08:55","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T22:08:55","slug":"report-afghans-sell-children-and-kidneys-to-survive-taliban-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-afghans-sell-children-and-kidneys-to-survive-taliban-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Afghans &#039;Sell Children and Kidneys&#039; to Survive Taliban Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-afghans-sell-children-and-kidneys-to-survive-taliban-rule%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1254527&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Afghan-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Some Afghans starving amid the dire economic fallout resulting from the Taliban\u2019s seizure of the country\u2019s government last August have been forced to sell their \u201cchildren and kidneys\u201d in desperate bids to earn money for food, Sky News <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/afghanistan-parents-sell-children-and-kidneys-to-feed-starving-families-12525919\">reported<\/a> Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn our first few days in Herat, we\u2019ve met whole families who\u2019ve sold their kidneys so they can eat,\u201d the British news outlet reported on January 28 after sending journalists to Afghanistan in recent days.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIn one case, three brothers and their two sisters told us they flogged [sold] their organs for around \u00a31,150 [$1,583] apiece to buy food for the rest of the family,\u201d Sky News relayed.<\/p>\n<p>Journalists for the news site said they met an Afghan mother who claimed her toddler child recently \u201cstarved to death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve heard multiple parents tell us how they\u2019re now resorting to selling their children,\u201d Sky News further revealed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Foreign aid facilitated by the U.S. government \u2014 which backed Kabul\u2019s former, internationally recognized government from about 2001 to 2021 \u2014 propped up&nbsp;Afghanistan\u2019s economy over the past two decades. Foreign aid&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20210818-taliban-face-critical-need-for-international-aid\">accounted<\/a> for 42.9 percent of Afghanistan\u2019s gross domestic product (GDP) of $19.8 billion in 2020, according to World Bank data.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfghanistan\u2019s economy is shaped by fragility and aid dependence,\u201d the global lender said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/08\/15\/local-media-afghan-government-handing-country-to-taliban\/\">deposed<\/a> Kabul\u2019s U.S.-supported government&nbsp;on August 15, 2021, seizing control of Afghanistan for the second time. It previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2001\/05\/20\/world\/taliban-s-ban-on-poppy-a-success-us-aides-say.html\">ruled<\/a>&nbsp;the country from 1996 to 2001.&nbsp;The political upheaval alarmed international aid organizations accustomed to sending Kabul donations through agreements brokered by Washington-approved Afghan government officials. Washington itself <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/08\/18\/business\/afghan-central-bank.html\">blocked<\/a> the Taliban\u2019s access to approximately $9.4 million in reserves in Afghanistan\u2019s central bank on August 17, 2021, in retaliation for the group\u2019s sacking of Kabul.&nbsp;The international community likewise&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasdaq.com\/articles\/imf-blocks-afghanistans-access-to-sdr-reserves-over-lack-of-clarity-on-government-2021-08\">halted<\/a> foreign aid flows to Afghanistan shortly afterward, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/afghans-struggle-with-empty-atms-soaring-prices\/a-58968652\">causing<\/a> the country\u2019s already weak economy to spiral downward. The impact of Afghanistan\u2019s foreign aid freeze was further <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/09\/23\/china-afghan-economic-sanctions-refugee\/\">complicated<\/a> by pre-existing economic sanctions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/08\/21\/business\/afghanistan-economy.html\">imposed<\/a> on the country by the U.S. and the United Nations (U.N.) to target the Taliban \u2014 a Sunni fundamentalist group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/8\/23\/hold-the-taliban-and-sharia-law-in-afghanistan\">based<\/a> on Islamic law, or sharia \u2014 in 2001 that remain in place today.<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan\u2019s GDP has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/press\/en\/2022\/sc14776.doc.htm\">contracted<\/a> 30 percent since the Taliban seized control of the country last summer, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres revealed on January 26 while reporting that the nation\u2019s economy was \u201con the brink of collapse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfghanistan is hanging by a thread,\u201d he remarked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United Nations has warned that nearly 23 million people \u2014 about 55 percent of the population \u2014 are facing extreme levels of hunger,\u201d the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty (RFE\/RL) <a href=\"https:\/\/gandhara.rferl.org\/a\/afghan-children-starving-hunger\/31676418.html\">reported<\/a> on January 28.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChildren are bearing the brunt of the crisis, with 14 million at risk of starvation this winter,\u201d according to U.N. data.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cForeign aid workers and Afghan medical staff estimate that dozens of children, mostly under the age of 5, are dying of starvation every week across the country,\u201d according to the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Afghans starving amid the dire economic fallout resulting from the Taliban\u2019s seizure of the country\u2019s government last August have been forced to sell their \u201cchildren and kidneys\u201d in desperate &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1254527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1254527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1254527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1254527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1254527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}