Impact of Taliban regime on humanitarian aid operation in Afghanistan : master's thesis

Amiri, Farida (author), Banjac, Marinko (mentor), Ristevska, Teodora Tea (comentor)

The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan on August 15, 2021 has significantly altered different sectors landscape, including the humanitarian programs, similar to the Taliban’s first period of rule between 1996 and 2001. This thesis examines the impact of the Taliban regime on humanitarian aid operations, with a focus on how Taliban’s restrictive policies have affected the delivery, effectiveness, and accessibility of humanitarian assistance. Through in-depth interviews with Afghan men and women working in humanitarian sector within the country, the study explores key challenges, such as restrictions on women’s rights, systemic discrimination and atrocities against ethnoreligious minorities, like Hazaras, as well as operational barriers that hinder aid distribution, all of which contribute significantly to the increased vulnerability of the population. This shift has also led to a rise of the number of humanitarian aid beneficiaries. Furthermore, based on the analysis of primary data, the thesis addresses the funding and resource constraints as part of the international community’s response to the Taliban’s escalating human rights violations.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Afghanistan, Taliban, humanitarian aid organizations, humanitarian assistance, structural violence
• Work type: Master's thesis/paper
• Typology: 2.09 - Master's Thesis
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Place of publishing: Ljubljana
• Publisher: F. Amiri
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: 1 spletni vir (1 datoteka PDF (75 str.))
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-165958
• UDC: 323:614.885(581)(043.2)
• COBISS.SI-ID: 222821635
• Publication date in RUL: 15.12.2024

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Vpliv talibanskega režima na operacijo humanitarne pomoči v Afganistanu : magistrsko delo

Abstract

Prevzem Afganistana s strani talibanov 15. avgusta 2021 je bistveno preoblikoval različne sektorje, vključno s humanitarnimi programi, podobno kot prvi mandat talibanov na oblasti med letoma 1996 in 2001. Magistrsko delo preučuje vpliv talibanskega režima na operacije humanitarne pomoči, pri čemer se osredotoča na to, kako so restriktivne politike talibanov vplivale na dostavo, učinkovitost in dostopnost te pomoči. S pomočjo kvalitativnih intervjujev z afganistanskimi moškimi in ženskami, ki delujejo v humanitarnem sektorju, študija raziskuje ključne izzive, kot so omejitvanje pravic žensk, sistemska diskriminacija in nasilje nad etnično-verskimi manjšinami, kot so Hazari, ter operativne ovire, ki zavirajo razdeljevanje pomoči, in znatno povečujejo ranljivost prebivalstva. To je privedlo tudi do povečanja števila upravičencev do humanitarne pomoči. Poleg tega magistrsko delo na podlagi analize primarnih podatkov obravnava omejitve financiranja in virov kot odziv mednarodne skupnosti na vse pogostejše kršitve človekovih pravic s strani talibanov.

• Keywords: Afganistan, talibani, organizacije za humanitarno pomoč, humanitarna pomoč, strukturno nasilje