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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa028.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/pearl-jam-ngos-call-for-afghanistan-aid/\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/pearl-jam-ngos-call-for-afghanistan-aid/\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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{"found_url":"https:\/\/www.globalcitizen.org\/en\/content\/pearl-jam-ngos-call-for-afghanistan-aid\/","crawl_time":1776238455,"first_indexed_time":1641930389,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"org,globalcitizen!www,\/en\/content\/pearl-jam-ngos-call-for-afghanistan-aid\/ s443","src_root_hash":"10489629973635246228","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"Pearl Jam Rallies NGO Effort Urging US to Help Fight Afghanistan Hunger Crisis","meta_descriptions":["Pearl Jam and humanitarian organizations are urging the Biden administration to send emergency financial aid to Afghanistan to save millions of people from hunger and famine."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"A man distributes bread to Afghan women outside a bakery in Kabul, Afghanistan, Dec, 2, 2021. According to UN figures from early November, almost 24 million people in Afghanistan, around 60% percent of the population, suffer from acute hunger.\n|\nPetros Giannakouris\/AP\nListen to this article\nJanuary 11, 2022\nPearl Jam, along with other musicians and celebrities, are uniting with a group of humanitarian organizations\nto urge\nthe Biden administration to send emergency financial aid to Afghanistan — an effort that could help save millions of people from famine and restore basic social services in a country on the brink of collapse. \nTogether, they’re calling on the White House to resume the flow of international aid and allow people in Afghanistan to access financial resources. This essentially means easing\nthe harsh sanctions\nthat have been in place since the US left the country in August 2021. \nA\njoint letter\nfrom the coalition of organizations asked for “global leaders to address the economic drivers of the hunger crisis by facilitating banking access for Afghans, and finding new ways to support the country’s critical services like hospitals, schools, and utilities.”\nMembers of the coalition include Alliance for Peacebuilding, CARE USA, Catholic Relief Services, Global Citizen, InterAction, International Rescue Committee, Norwegian Refugee Council USA, Save the Children US, War Child USA, and World Vision US. \nOther notable names that have joined the effort include Pearl Jam and their \nVitalogy Foundation\n, Tom Morello, Amanda Seyfriend, Thomas Sadoski, and Josh Klinghoffer. \nWe cannot let the Afghan people become casualties of the world’s inaction. As winter sets in, tens of millions of lives hang in the balance. Global leaders must do the right thing – before it’s too late.\n#AfghansCantWait\n.\npic.twitter.com\/pBLTilub1A\n— Pearl Jam (@PearlJam)\nJanuary 11, 2022\n“We have all witnessed how difficult it has been to wind down US involvement in Afghanistan but we can’t turn a blind eye now to the millions of families who are bearing the consequences,” Pearl Jam rhythm guitarist Stone Gossard\nsaid in a statement\n. “We have an obligation to support the Afghan people and to ensure our actions don’t make it even harder for them to access food and basic necessities.”\nWhen the US\nwithdrew its military from Afghanistan\nfour months ago, it also\nended funding\nto the country, blocked the incoming Taliban-led government from accessing its financial services, and froze state assets abroad.\nThe country’s economy, already in tatters from the war and struggling\nwith the worst drought in decades\n, has nearly collapsed, creating the conditions for what has been called the “\nworld’s worst humanitarian crisis\n.” \nMore than half of the country, or 22.8 million people, face\nlife-threatening food insecurity\n, and 8.7 million people face famine. More than\n131,000 children could die\nin the weeks and months ahead simply because they lack food. \n“We are seeing that under a frozen financial system, looming economic crisis, and Taliban rule, many families will not survive the winter,”\nsaid\nSam Worthington, president of InterAction, the largest alliance of US-based non-governmental organizations in the world, which organized the joint letter. \nWhile the US government\nis ostensibly using sanctions\nto signal to the Taliban that it will not tolerate human rights abuses, the set of policies is\ncausing tremendous suffering for ordinary people\n. Among other issues, the sanctions prevent lifesaving aid from reaching vulnerable communities, bar Afghan citizens from accessing financial resources, and dramatically limit the new government’s ability to fund social services like health care. \nUltimately, experts explain that\nthe women, children, and families\nliving most precariously in a state of poverty, who suddenly have no way of affording or accessing food and health care, are the most impacted. \n“We cannot let the Afghan people become casualties of the world’s inaction,” the coalition\nwrote in the joint letter\n. “As winter sets in, tens of millions of lives hang in the balance. Global leaders must do the right thing — before it’s too late.”","attrs_markdown":"×![Global Citizen](https:\/\/static.globalcitizen.org\/static\/img\/gc_logo.11b725af7068.png)\n\nThanks for signing up as a global citizen. In order to create your account we need you to provide your email address. 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According to UN figures from early November, almost 24 million people in Afghanistan, around 60% percent of the population, suffer from acute hunger. \\| Petros Giannakouris\/AP\n###### Listen to this article\n[![Joe McCarthy](https:\/\/img.globalcitizen.org\/n2F1K9NwnRayJVrY170TJOkYVMe8zBasNvC5BQ3L\/100x100%2Ffilters%3Aquality%2885%29%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fmedia.globalcitizen.org%2Fa2%2F8b%2Fa28b1ef9-1704-4268-95b3-38434b41d72e%2Fscreen_shot_2021-04-29_at_114900_am.png)](https:\/\/www.globalcitizen.org\/en\/authors\/joe-mccarthy\/ \"Joe McCarthy\")\n\nBy [Joe McCarthy](https:\/\/www.globalcitizen.org\/en\/authors\/joe-mccarthy\/)\n\nJanuary 11, 2022\n\nPearl Jam, along with other musicians and celebrities, are uniting with a group of humanitarian organizations [to urge](https:\/\/www.interaction.org\/blog\/joint-statement-urgent-policy-action-needed-by-white-house-to-support-the-afghan-people\/) the Biden administration to send emergency financial aid to Afghanistan — an effort that could help save millions of people from famine and restore basic social services in a country on the brink of collapse.\n\nTogether, they’re calling on the White House to resume the flow of international aid and allow people in Afghanistan to access financial resources. This essentially means easing [the harsh sanctions](https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2022\/01\/09\/afghanistan-sanctions-human-rights-hawks\/) that have been in place since the US left the country in August 2021.\n\nA [joint letter](https:\/\/www.interaction.org\/blog\/joint-statement-urgent-policy-action-needed-by-white-house-to-support-the-afghan-people\/) from the coalition of organizations asked for “global leaders to address the economic drivers of the hunger crisis by facilitating banking access for Afghans, and finding new ways to support the country’s critical services like hospitals, schools, and utilities.”\n\nMembers of the coalition include Alliance for Peacebuilding, CARE USA, Catholic Relief Services, Global Citizen, InterAction, International Rescue Committee, Norwegian Refugee Council USA, Save the Children US, War Child USA, and World Vision US.\n\nOther notable names that have joined the effort include Pearl Jam and their [Vitalogy Foundation](https:\/\/pearljam.com\/vitalogy), Tom Morello, Amanda Seyfriend, Thomas Sadoski, and Josh Klinghoffer.\n\n> We cannot let the Afghan people become casualties of the world’s inaction. As winter sets in, tens of millions of lives hang in the balance. Global leaders must do the right thing – before it’s too late. [\\#AfghansCantWait](https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AfghansCantWait?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw). [pic.twitter.com\/pBLTilub1A](https:\/\/t.co\/pBLTilub1A)\n> \n> — Pearl Jam (@PearlJam) [January 11, 2022](https:\/\/twitter.com\/PearlJam\/status\/1480928738707742729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)\n\n“We have all witnessed how difficult it has been to wind down US involvement in Afghanistan but we can’t turn a blind eye now to the millions of families who are bearing the consequences,” Pearl Jam rhythm guitarist Stone Gossard [said in a statement](https:\/\/www.interaction.org\/blog\/pearl-jam-unites-with-worlds-largest-nonprofits-to-urge-action-on-afghanistan\/). “We have an obligation to support the Afghan people and to ensure our actions don’t make it even harder for them to access food and basic necessities.”\n\nWhen the US [withdrew its military from Afghanistan](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/08\/31\/us\/politics\/biden-defends-afghanistan-withdrawal.html) four months ago, it also [ended funding](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/11\/opinion\/afghanistan-taliban-us.html) to the country, blocked the incoming Taliban-led government from accessing its financial services, and froze state assets abroad.\n\nThe country’s economy, already in tatters from the war and struggling [with the worst drought in decades](https:\/\/www.ifrc.org\/press-release\/afghanistan-worst-drought-and-hunger-crisis-decades), has nearly collapsed, creating the conditions for what has been called the “[world’s worst humanitarian crisis](https:\/\/www.wfp.org\/stories\/afghanistan-climate-crisis-drought-wfp-hunger-cop26-ipc-un).”\n\n##### Related Stories\nMore than half of the country, or 22.8 million people, face [life-threatening food insecurity](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/04\/world\/asia\/afghanistan-starvation-crisis.html), and 8.7 million people face famine. More than [131,000 children could die](https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/report\/afghanistan\/afghanistan-humanitarian-needs-and-planned-response-2022) in the weeks and months ahead simply because they lack food.\n\n“We are seeing that under a frozen financial system, looming economic crisis, and Taliban rule, many families will not survive the winter,” [said](https:\/\/www.interaction.org\/blog\/pearl-jam-unites-with-worlds-largest-nonprofits-to-urge-action-on-afghanistan\/) Sam Worthington, president of InterAction, the largest alliance of US-based non-governmental organizations in the world, which organized the joint letter.\n\nWhile the US government [is ostensibly using sanctions](https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/us-policy\/2021\/08\/17\/treasury-taliban-money-afghanistan\/) to signal to the Taliban that it will not tolerate human rights abuses, the set of policies is [causing tremendous suffering for ordinary people](https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2022\/01\/09\/afghanistan-sanctions-human-rights-hawks\/). Among other issues, the sanctions prevent lifesaving aid from reaching vulnerable communities, bar Afghan citizens from accessing financial resources, and dramatically limit the new government’s ability to fund social services like health care.\n\nUltimately, experts explain that [the women, children, and families](https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/12\/28\/afghanistan-economy-collapse-us-sanctions\/) living most precariously in a state of poverty, who suddenly have no way of affording or accessing food and health care, are the most impacted.\n\n“We cannot let the Afghan people become casualties of the world’s inaction,” the coalition [wrote in the joint letter](https:\/\/www.interaction.org\/blog\/joint-statement-urgent-policy-action-needed-by-white-house-to-support-the-afghan-people\/). “As winter sets in, tens of millions of lives hang in the balance. Global leaders must do the right thing — before it’s too late.”\n\n##### Related Stories\nTopics [Food & Hunger](https:\/\/www.globalcitizen.org\/en\/content\/topics\/food-hunger\/)  [Advocacy](https:\/\/www.globalcitizen.org\/en\/content\/topics\/advocacy\/)  [Afghanistan](https:\/\/www.globalcitizen.org\/en\/content\/topics\/afghanistan\/)  [food](https:\/\/www.globalcitizen.org\/en\/content\/topics\/food\/)  [Malnutrition](https:\/\/www.globalcitizen.org\/en\/content\/topics\/malnutrition\/)  [Famine](https:\/\/www.globalcitizen.org\/en\/content\/topics\/famine\/)  [NGOs](https:\/\/www.globalcitizen.org\/en\/content\/topics\/ngos\/)  [Pearl Jam](https:\/\/www.globalcitizen.org\/en\/content\/topics\/pearl-jam\/)  [Humanitarian Crisis](https:\/\/www.globalcitizen.org\/en\/content\/topics\/humanitarian-crisis\/)  [Crisis](https:\/\/www.globalcitizen.org\/en\/content\/topics\/crisis_1\/)  [Sanctions](https:\/\/www.globalcitizen.org\/en\/content\/topics\/sanctions\/)  [Global Citizen Life](https:\/\/www.globalcitizen.org\/en\/content\/topics\/global-citizen-life\/)  [Biden](https:\/\/www.globalcitizen.org\/en\/content\/topics\/biden\/)\n\n#### Why we're writing\n##### What's at stake?\nMillions of people are at risk of starving to death in Afghanistan as a famine looms over large parts of the country amid a catastrophic economic collapse.\n\n##### What can we do?\nWe can call on the US and other countries to send immediate humanitarian aid to Afghanistan.\n\n##### How You Can Help\n### Are you ready to Defeat Poverty?\n\nTake Action\n\n## Read more\n[Biden to Use \\$3.5 Billion in Frozen Afghan Assets for Humanitarian ReliefThe total funds will be split with groups representing victims of 9\/11.](https:\/\/www.globalcitizen.org\/en\/content\/biden-executive-order-afghanistan-assets\/ \"Biden to Use $3.5 Billion in Frozen Afghan Assets for Humanitarian Relief\")\n\n[By](https:\/\/www.globalcitizen.org\/en\/content\/biden-executive-order-afghanistan-assets\/ \"Biden to Use $3.5 Billion in Frozen Afghan Assets for Humanitarian Relief\") [Joe McCarthy](https:\/\/www.globalcitizen.org\/en\/authors\/joe-mccarthy\/)\n\n5 min Read\n\n[How War Fuels PovertyFrom Ukraine to Tigray, conflict causes devastating consequences beyond the immediate violence.](https:\/\/www.globalcitizen.org\/en\/content\/how-war-fuels-poverty\/ \"How War Fuels Poverty\")\n\n[By](https:\/\/www.globalcitizen.org\/en\/content\/how-war-fuels-poverty\/ \"How War Fuels Poverty\") [Joe McCarthy](https:\/\/www.globalcitizen.org\/en\/authors\/joe-mccarthy\/)\n\n9 min Read\n\n[Hunger Looms in Mozambique After Cyclone Idai Wiped Out 1.7 Million Acres of FarmlandCrops, fisheries, and livestock have been devastated.](https:\/\/www.globalcitizen.org\/en\/content\/hunger-crisis-mozambique\/ \"Hunger Looms in Mozambique After Cyclone Idai Wiped Out 1.7 Million Acres of Farmland\")\n\n[By](https:\/\/www.globalcitizen.org\/en\/content\/hunger-crisis-mozambique\/ \"Hunger Looms in Mozambique After 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According to UN figures from early November, almost 24 million people in Afghanistan, around 60% percent of the population, suffer from acute hunger. \\| Petros Giannakouris\/AP\n\nListen to this article\n\n[![Joe McCarthy](https:\/\/img.globalcitizen.org\/n2F1K9NwnRayJVrY170TJOkYVMe8zBasNvC5BQ3L\/100x100%2Ffilters%3Aquality%2885%29%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fmedia.globalcitizen.org%2Fa2%2F8b%2Fa28b1ef9-1704-4268-95b3-38434b41d72e%2Fscreen_shot_2021-04-29_at_114900_am.png)](https:\/\/www.globalcitizen.org\/en\/authors\/joe-mccarthy\/ \"Joe McCarthy\")\n\nJanuary 11, 2022\n\nPearl Jam, along with other musicians and celebrities, are uniting with a group of humanitarian organizations [to urge](https:\/\/www.interaction.org\/blog\/joint-statement-urgent-policy-action-needed-by-white-house-to-support-the-afghan-people\/) the Biden administration to send emergency financial aid to Afghanistan — an effort that could help save millions of people from famine and restore basic social services in a country on the brink of collapse.\n\nTogether, they’re calling on the White House to resume the flow of international aid and allow people in Afghanistan to access financial resources. This essentially means easing [the harsh sanctions](https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2022\/01\/09\/afghanistan-sanctions-human-rights-hawks\/) that have been in place since the US left the country in August 2021.\n\nA [joint letter](https:\/\/www.interaction.org\/blog\/joint-statement-urgent-policy-action-needed-by-white-house-to-support-the-afghan-people\/) from the coalition of organizations asked for “global leaders to address the economic drivers of the hunger crisis by facilitating banking access for Afghans, and finding new ways to support the country’s critical services like hospitals, schools, and utilities.”\n\nMembers of the coalition include Alliance for Peacebuilding, CARE USA, Catholic Relief Services, Global Citizen, InterAction, International Rescue Committee, Norwegian Refugee Council USA, Save the Children US, War Child USA, and World Vision US.\n\nOther notable names that have joined the effort include Pearl Jam and their [Vitalogy Foundation](https:\/\/pearljam.com\/vitalogy), Tom Morello, Amanda Seyfriend, Thomas Sadoski, and Josh Klinghoffer.\n\n> We cannot let the Afghan people become casualties of the world’s inaction. As winter sets in, tens of millions of lives hang in the balance. Global leaders must do the right thing – before it’s too late. [\\#AfghansCantWait](https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AfghansCantWait?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw). [pic.twitter.com\/pBLTilub1A](https:\/\/t.co\/pBLTilub1A)\n> \n> — Pearl Jam (@PearlJam) [January 11, 2022](https:\/\/twitter.com\/PearlJam\/status\/1480928738707742729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)\n\n“We have all witnessed how difficult it has been to wind down US involvement in Afghanistan but we can’t turn a blind eye now to the millions of families who are bearing the consequences,” Pearl Jam rhythm guitarist Stone Gossard [said in a statement](https:\/\/www.interaction.org\/blog\/pearl-jam-unites-with-worlds-largest-nonprofits-to-urge-action-on-afghanistan\/). “We have an obligation to support the Afghan people and to ensure our actions don’t make it even harder for them to access food and basic necessities.”\n\nWhen the US [withdrew its military from Afghanistan](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/08\/31\/us\/politics\/biden-defends-afghanistan-withdrawal.html) four months ago, it also [ended funding](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/11\/opinion\/afghanistan-taliban-us.html) to the country, blocked the incoming Taliban-led government from accessing its financial services, and froze state assets abroad.\n\nThe country’s economy, already in tatters from the war and struggling [with the worst drought in decades](https:\/\/www.ifrc.org\/press-release\/afghanistan-worst-drought-and-hunger-crisis-decades), has nearly collapsed, creating the conditions for what has been called the “[world’s worst humanitarian crisis](https:\/\/www.wfp.org\/stories\/afghanistan-climate-crisis-drought-wfp-hunger-cop26-ipc-un).”\n\nMore than half of the country, or 22.8 million people, face [life-threatening food insecurity](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/04\/world\/asia\/afghanistan-starvation-crisis.html), and 8.7 million people face famine. More than [131,000 children could die](https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/report\/afghanistan\/afghanistan-humanitarian-needs-and-planned-response-2022) in the weeks and months ahead simply because they lack food.\n\n“We are seeing that under a frozen financial system, looming economic crisis, and Taliban rule, many families will not survive the winter,” [said](https:\/\/www.interaction.org\/blog\/pearl-jam-unites-with-worlds-largest-nonprofits-to-urge-action-on-afghanistan\/) Sam Worthington, president of InterAction, the largest alliance of US-based non-governmental organizations in the world, which organized the joint letter.\n\nWhile the US government [is ostensibly using sanctions](https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/us-policy\/2021\/08\/17\/treasury-taliban-money-afghanistan\/) to signal to the Taliban that it will not tolerate human rights abuses, the set of policies is [causing tremendous suffering for ordinary people](https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2022\/01\/09\/afghanistan-sanctions-human-rights-hawks\/). Among other issues, the sanctions prevent lifesaving aid from reaching vulnerable communities, bar Afghan citizens from accessing financial resources, and dramatically limit the new government’s ability to fund social services like health care.\n\nUltimately, experts explain that [the women, children, and families](https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/12\/28\/afghanistan-economy-collapse-us-sanctions\/) living most precariously in a state of poverty, who suddenly have no way of affording or accessing food and health care, are the most impacted.\n\n“We cannot let the Afghan people become casualties of the world’s inaction,” the coalition [wrote in the joint letter](https:\/\/www.interaction.org\/blog\/joint-statement-urgent-policy-action-needed-by-white-house-to-support-the-afghan-people\/). “As winter sets in, tens of millions of lives hang in the balance. Global leaders must do the right thing — before it’s too late.”","meta_canonical":null}

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Boilerpipe Text	A man distributes bread to Afghan women outside a bakery in Kabul, Afghanistan, Dec, 2, 2021. According to UN figures from early November, almost 24 million people in Afghanistan, around 60% percent of the population, suffer from acute hunger. \| Petros Giannakouris/AP Listen to this article January 11, 2022 Pearl Jam, along with other musicians and celebrities, are uniting with a group of humanitarian organizations to urge the Biden administration to send emergency financial aid to Afghanistan — an effort that could help save millions of people from famine and restore basic social services in a country on the brink of collapse. Together, they’re calling on the White House to resume the flow of international aid and allow people in Afghanistan to access financial resources. This essentially means easing the harsh sanctions that have been in place since the US left the country in August 2021. A joint letter from the coalition of organizations asked for “global leaders to address the economic drivers of the hunger crisis by facilitating banking access for Afghans, and finding new ways to support the country’s critical services like hospitals, schools, and utilities.” Members of the coalition include Alliance for Peacebuilding, CARE USA, Catholic Relief Services, Global Citizen, InterAction, International Rescue Committee, Norwegian Refugee Council USA, Save the Children US, War Child USA, and World Vision US. Other notable names that have joined the effort include Pearl Jam and their Vitalogy Foundation , Tom Morello, Amanda Seyfriend, Thomas Sadoski, and Josh Klinghoffer. We cannot let the Afghan people become casualties of the world’s inaction. As winter sets in, tens of millions of lives hang in the balance. Global leaders must do the right thing – before it’s too late. #AfghansCantWait . pic.twitter.com/pBLTilub1A — Pearl Jam (@PearlJam) January 11, 2022 “We have all witnessed how difficult it has been to wind down US involvement in Afghanistan but we can’t turn a blind eye now to the millions of families who are bearing the consequences,” Pearl Jam rhythm guitarist Stone Gossard said in a statement . “We have an obligation to support the Afghan people and to ensure our actions don’t make it even harder for them to access food and basic necessities.” When the US withdrew its military from Afghanistan four months ago, it also ended funding to the country, blocked the incoming Taliban-led government from accessing its financial services, and froze state assets abroad. The country’s economy, already in tatters from the war and struggling with the worst drought in decades , has nearly collapsed, creating the conditions for what has been called the “ world’s worst humanitarian crisis .” More than half of the country, or 22.8 million people, face life-threatening food insecurity , and 8.7 million people face famine. More than 131,000 children could die in the weeks and months ahead simply because they lack food. “We are seeing that under a frozen financial system, looming economic crisis, and Taliban rule, many families will not survive the winter,” said Sam Worthington, president of InterAction, the largest alliance of US-based non-governmental organizations in the world, which organized the joint letter. While the US government is ostensibly using sanctions to signal to the Taliban that it will not tolerate human rights abuses, the set of policies is causing tremendous suffering for ordinary people . Among other issues, the sanctions prevent lifesaving aid from reaching vulnerable communities, bar Afghan citizens from accessing financial resources, and dramatically limit the new government’s ability to fund social services like health care. Ultimately, experts explain that the women, children, and families living most precariously in a state of poverty, who suddenly have no way of affording or accessing food and health care, are the most impacted. “We cannot let the Afghan people become casualties of the world’s inaction,” the coalition wrote in the joint letter . “As winter sets in, tens of millions of lives hang in the balance. Global leaders must do the right thing — before it’s too late.”
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Share Share Share Post Email ![](https://www.globalcitizen.org/static/img/festival-banner-lqip.png) A man distributes bread to Afghan women outside a bakery in Kabul, Afghanistan, Dec, 2, 2021. According to UN figures from early November, almost 24 million people in Afghanistan, around 60% percent of the population, suffer from acute hunger. \\| Petros Giannakouris/AP ###### Listen to this article [![Joe McCarthy](https://img.globalcitizen.org/n2F1K9NwnRayJVrY170TJOkYVMe8zBasNvC5BQ3L/100x100%2Ffilters%3Aquality%2885%29%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fmedia.globalcitizen.org%2Fa2%2F8b%2Fa28b1ef9-1704-4268-95b3-38434b41d72e%2Fscreen_shot_2021-04-29_at_114900_am.png)](https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/authors/joe-mccarthy/ "Joe McCarthy") By [Joe McCarthy](https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/authors/joe-mccarthy/) January 11, 2022 Pearl Jam, along with other musicians and celebrities, are uniting with a group of humanitarian organizations [to urge](https://www.interaction.org/blog/joint-statement-urgent-policy-action-needed-by-white-house-to-support-the-afghan-people/) the Biden administration to send emergency financial aid to Afghanistan — an effort that could help save millions of people from famine and restore basic social services in a country on the brink of collapse. Together, they’re calling on the White House to resume the flow of international aid and allow people in Afghanistan to access financial resources. This essentially means easing [the harsh sanctions](https://theintercept.com/2022/01/09/afghanistan-sanctions-human-rights-hawks/) that have been in place since the US left the country in August 2021. A [joint letter](https://www.interaction.org/blog/joint-statement-urgent-policy-action-needed-by-white-house-to-support-the-afghan-people/) from the coalition of organizations asked for “global leaders to address the economic drivers of the hunger crisis by facilitating banking access for Afghans, and finding new ways to support the country’s critical services like hospitals, schools, and utilities.” Members of the coalition include Alliance for Peacebuilding, CARE USA, Catholic Relief Services, Global Citizen, InterAction, International Rescue Committee, Norwegian Refugee Council USA, Save the Children US, War Child USA, and World Vision US. Other notable names that have joined the effort include Pearl Jam and their [Vitalogy Foundation](https://pearljam.com/vitalogy), Tom Morello, Amanda Seyfriend, Thomas Sadoski, and Josh Klinghoffer. > We cannot let the Afghan people become casualties of the world’s inaction. As winter sets in, tens of millions of lives hang in the balance. Global leaders must do the right thing – before it’s too late. [\#AfghansCantWait](https://twitter.com/hashtag/AfghansCantWait?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw). [pic.twitter.com/pBLTilub1A](https://t.co/pBLTilub1A) > > — Pearl Jam (@PearlJam) [January 11, 2022](https://twitter.com/PearlJam/status/1480928738707742729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) “We have all witnessed how difficult it has been to wind down US involvement in Afghanistan but we can’t turn a blind eye now to the millions of families who are bearing the consequences,” Pearl Jam rhythm guitarist Stone Gossard [said in a statement](https://www.interaction.org/blog/pearl-jam-unites-with-worlds-largest-nonprofits-to-urge-action-on-afghanistan/). “We have an obligation to support the Afghan people and to ensure our actions don’t make it even harder for them to access food and basic necessities.” When the US [withdrew its military from Afghanistan](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/31/us/politics/biden-defends-afghanistan-withdrawal.html) four months ago, it also [ended funding](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/11/opinion/afghanistan-taliban-us.html) to the country, blocked the incoming Taliban-led government from accessing its financial services, and froze state assets abroad. The country’s economy, already in tatters from the war and struggling [with the worst drought in decades](https://www.ifrc.org/press-release/afghanistan-worst-drought-and-hunger-crisis-decades), has nearly collapsed, creating the conditions for what has been called the “[world’s worst humanitarian crisis](https://www.wfp.org/stories/afghanistan-climate-crisis-drought-wfp-hunger-cop26-ipc-un).” ##### Related Stories More than half of the country, or 22.8 million people, face [life-threatening food insecurity](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/04/world/asia/afghanistan-starvation-crisis.html), and 8.7 million people face famine. More than [131,000 children could die](https://reliefweb.int/report/afghanistan/afghanistan-humanitarian-needs-and-planned-response-2022) in the weeks and months ahead simply because they lack food. “We are seeing that under a frozen financial system, looming economic crisis, and Taliban rule, many families will not survive the winter,” [said](https://www.interaction.org/blog/pearl-jam-unites-with-worlds-largest-nonprofits-to-urge-action-on-afghanistan/) Sam Worthington, president of InterAction, the largest alliance of US-based non-governmental organizations in the world, which organized the joint letter. While the US government [is ostensibly using sanctions](https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/08/17/treasury-taliban-money-afghanistan/) to signal to the Taliban that it will not tolerate human rights abuses, the set of policies is [causing tremendous suffering for ordinary people](https://theintercept.com/2022/01/09/afghanistan-sanctions-human-rights-hawks/). Among other issues, the sanctions prevent lifesaving aid from reaching vulnerable communities, bar Afghan citizens from accessing financial resources, and dramatically limit the new government’s ability to fund social services like health care. Ultimately, experts explain that [the women, children, and families](https://theintercept.com/2021/12/28/afghanistan-economy-collapse-us-sanctions/) living most precariously in a state of poverty, who suddenly have no way of affording or accessing food and health care, are the most impacted. “We cannot let the Afghan people become casualties of the world’s inaction,” the coalition [wrote in the joint letter](https://www.interaction.org/blog/joint-statement-urgent-policy-action-needed-by-white-house-to-support-the-afghan-people/). “As winter sets in, tens of millions of lives hang in the balance. Global leaders must do the right thing — before it’s too late.” ##### Related Stories Topics [Food & Hunger](https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/topics/food-hunger/) [Advocacy](https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/topics/advocacy/) [Afghanistan](https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/topics/afghanistan/) [food](https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/topics/food/) [Malnutrition](https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/topics/malnutrition/) [Famine](https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/topics/famine/) [NGOs](https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/topics/ngos/) [Pearl Jam](https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/topics/pearl-jam/) [Humanitarian Crisis](https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/topics/humanitarian-crisis/) [Crisis](https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/topics/crisis_1/) [Sanctions](https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/topics/sanctions/) [Global Citizen Life](https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/topics/global-citizen-life/) [Biden](https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/topics/biden/) #### Why we're writing ##### What's at stake? 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Readable Markdown	![](https://www.globalcitizen.org/static/img/festival-banner-lqip.png) A man distributes bread to Afghan women outside a bakery in Kabul, Afghanistan, Dec, 2, 2021. According to UN figures from early November, almost 24 million people in Afghanistan, around 60% percent of the population, suffer from acute hunger. \\| Petros Giannakouris/AP Listen to this article [![Joe McCarthy](https://img.globalcitizen.org/n2F1K9NwnRayJVrY170TJOkYVMe8zBasNvC5BQ3L/100x100%2Ffilters%3Aquality%2885%29%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fmedia.globalcitizen.org%2Fa2%2F8b%2Fa28b1ef9-1704-4268-95b3-38434b41d72e%2Fscreen_shot_2021-04-29_at_114900_am.png)](https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/authors/joe-mccarthy/ "Joe McCarthy") January 11, 2022 Pearl Jam, along with other musicians and celebrities, are uniting with a group of humanitarian organizations [to urge](https://www.interaction.org/blog/joint-statement-urgent-policy-action-needed-by-white-house-to-support-the-afghan-people/) the Biden administration to send emergency financial aid to Afghanistan — an effort that could help save millions of people from famine and restore basic social services in a country on the brink of collapse. Together, they’re calling on the White House to resume the flow of international aid and allow people in Afghanistan to access financial resources. This essentially means easing [the harsh sanctions](https://theintercept.com/2022/01/09/afghanistan-sanctions-human-rights-hawks/) that have been in place since the US left the country in August 2021. A [joint letter](https://www.interaction.org/blog/joint-statement-urgent-policy-action-needed-by-white-house-to-support-the-afghan-people/) from the coalition of organizations asked for “global leaders to address the economic drivers of the hunger crisis by facilitating banking access for Afghans, and finding new ways to support the country’s critical services like hospitals, schools, and utilities.” Members of the coalition include Alliance for Peacebuilding, CARE USA, Catholic Relief Services, Global Citizen, InterAction, International Rescue Committee, Norwegian Refugee Council USA, Save the Children US, War Child USA, and World Vision US. Other notable names that have joined the effort include Pearl Jam and their [Vitalogy Foundation](https://pearljam.com/vitalogy), Tom Morello, Amanda Seyfriend, Thomas Sadoski, and Josh Klinghoffer. > We cannot let the Afghan people become casualties of the world’s inaction. As winter sets in, tens of millions of lives hang in the balance. Global leaders must do the right thing – before it’s too late. [\#AfghansCantWait](https://twitter.com/hashtag/AfghansCantWait?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw). [pic.twitter.com/pBLTilub1A](https://t.co/pBLTilub1A) > > — Pearl Jam (@PearlJam) [January 11, 2022](https://twitter.com/PearlJam/status/1480928738707742729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) “We have all witnessed how difficult it has been to wind down US involvement in Afghanistan but we can’t turn a blind eye now to the millions of families who are bearing the consequences,” Pearl Jam rhythm guitarist Stone Gossard [said in a statement](https://www.interaction.org/blog/pearl-jam-unites-with-worlds-largest-nonprofits-to-urge-action-on-afghanistan/). “We have an obligation to support the Afghan people and to ensure our actions don’t make it even harder for them to access food and basic necessities.” When the US [withdrew its military from Afghanistan](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/31/us/politics/biden-defends-afghanistan-withdrawal.html) four months ago, it also [ended funding](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/11/opinion/afghanistan-taliban-us.html) to the country, blocked the incoming Taliban-led government from accessing its financial services, and froze state assets abroad. The country’s economy, already in tatters from the war and struggling [with the worst drought in decades](https://www.ifrc.org/press-release/afghanistan-worst-drought-and-hunger-crisis-decades), has nearly collapsed, creating the conditions for what has been called the “[world’s worst humanitarian crisis](https://www.wfp.org/stories/afghanistan-climate-crisis-drought-wfp-hunger-cop26-ipc-un).” More than half of the country, or 22.8 million people, face [life-threatening food insecurity](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/04/world/asia/afghanistan-starvation-crisis.html), and 8.7 million people face famine. More than [131,000 children could die](https://reliefweb.int/report/afghanistan/afghanistan-humanitarian-needs-and-planned-response-2022) in the weeks and months ahead simply because they lack food. “We are seeing that under a frozen financial system, looming economic crisis, and Taliban rule, many families will not survive the winter,” [said](https://www.interaction.org/blog/pearl-jam-unites-with-worlds-largest-nonprofits-to-urge-action-on-afghanistan/) Sam Worthington, president of InterAction, the largest alliance of US-based non-governmental organizations in the world, which organized the joint letter. While the US government [is ostensibly using sanctions](https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/08/17/treasury-taliban-money-afghanistan/) to signal to the Taliban that it will not tolerate human rights abuses, the set of policies is [causing tremendous suffering for ordinary people](https://theintercept.com/2022/01/09/afghanistan-sanctions-human-rights-hawks/). Among other issues, the sanctions prevent lifesaving aid from reaching vulnerable communities, bar Afghan citizens from accessing financial resources, and dramatically limit the new government’s ability to fund social services like health care. Ultimately, experts explain that [the women, children, and families](https://theintercept.com/2021/12/28/afghanistan-economy-collapse-us-sanctions/) living most precariously in a state of poverty, who suddenly have no way of affording or accessing food and health care, are the most impacted. “We cannot let the Afghan people become casualties of the world’s inaction,” the coalition [wrote in the joint letter](https://www.interaction.org/blog/joint-statement-urgent-policy-action-needed-by-white-house-to-support-the-afghan-people/). “As winter sets in, tens of millions of lives hang in the balance. Global leaders must do the right thing — before it’s too late.”
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