{"id":17993,"date":"2026-07-20T08:15:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T08:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/20\/un-funding-cuts-threaten-vital-services-afghan-women\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T08:15:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T08:15:22","slug":"un-funding-cuts-threaten-vital-services-afghan-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/20\/un-funding-cuts-threaten-vital-services-afghan-women\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Warns Funding Cuts Threaten Vital Services for Afghan Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations has stated that reductions in financial aid have seriously jeopardized the provision of essential services for women and girls in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>According to UN Women, Muhammad Naqiri, head of the agency&#8217;s office, and Susan Ferguson, its Special Representative for Afghanistan, met with Bruno Lemarquis, Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General, Resident Coordinator, and Humanitarian Coordinator in Kabul, to discuss the increasing needs of Afghan women and girls.<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting, both sides emphasized that the suspension or reduction of financial assistance has constrained life-saving services and negatively impacted women&#8217;s access to essential support.<\/p>\n<p>They also highlighted operational restrictions faced by aid workers, particularly Afghan women staff. This discussion takes place amid repeated warnings from humanitarian organizations about dwindling funding and its effects on vulnerable populations in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN warns that cuts in funding threaten critical services for Afghan women and girls, impacting access and aid delivery amid increasing needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}