{"id":219,"date":"2023-02-28T15:59:48","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T15:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/?p=219"},"modified":"2023-02-28T15:59:48","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T15:59:48","slug":"humanitarian-crisis-news-alert-from-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/02\/28\/humanitarian-crisis-news-alert-from-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Humanitarian crisis news alert from The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Just as I was finishing the reading for this week, this news alert popped up on my phone, announcing an article describing a malnutrition crisis that the narrative ties to a ban on female workers put in place by the Taliban.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is really related more to last week’s topic than this week. It has many of the elements that Linda Polman discusses in her book The Crisis Caravan: complicated geopolitics hindering the provision of badly needed goods, Western journalists citing facts from folks on the ground to which we may now cast a dubious eye, and activities of non-governmental organizations (NGOs). In this case, the article talks about how NGOs have “secured excemptions to the ban [on female workers]” so that they may continue doing their work of providing humanitarian aid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can read the full story here: Christina Goldbaum and Yaqoob Akbary with photographs by Kiana Hayeri, “Dying Children and Frozen Flocks in Afghanistan\u2019s Bitter Winter of Crisis”<\/a>, Feb. 27, 2023. Content warning: it’s a very sad piece about a lot of human misery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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