{"id":3943,"date":"2025-12-22T15:50:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T15:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/22\/red-cross-deepening-humanitarian-crisis-afghanistan-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T15:50:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T15:50:18","slug":"red-cross-deepening-humanitarian-crisis-afghanistan-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/22\/red-cross-deepening-humanitarian-crisis-afghanistan-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Cross Warns of Deepening Humanitarian Crisis in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has reported that Afghanistan continues to face one of the world&#8217;s most severe humanitarian crises, with millions of people urgently requiring assistance to survive.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, in 2025 approximately 22.9 million people\u2014over half of the country&#8217;s population\u2014are in need of humanitarian aid due to the consequences of decades of armed conflict, economic hardships, natural disasters, and the effects of climate change.<\/p>\n<p>The report further states that a lack of livelihood opportunities, widespread unemployment, and limited access to healthcare have pushed many families to the brink of survival, significantly increasing the daily pressures on the population.<\/p>\n<p>The international organization warned that the continuation of these conditions, coupled with the Taliban administration&#8217;s inability to provide basic services and create sustainable economic opportunities, could deepen the humanitarian crisis and increase needs across various parts of the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Red Cross reports Afghanistan faces a severe humanitarian crisis in 2025, with 22.9 million people needing urgent aid amid conflict and economic challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-social-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943","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=3943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}