Afghanistan: Families forced to sell children to pay for food
The United Nations is urging the international community to release money for urgent food aid. The World Food Programme estimates 23 million Afghans are desperately short of food as the country's economy collapses. Afghanistan's government and economy had been highly reliant on international funding that many countries withdrew when the Taliban took back power in August.
Last week the UN Security Council heard reports of families selling their children for food.
Journalist Christina Lamb is in Kabul and met one such family who have sold their eight-year-old daughter out of desperation.
(Photo shows: The feet of an Afghan girl recently sold to the family of her future husband. October 2021. Credit: Getty Images)
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