Climate change, women's rights, displacement, poverty: Afghanistan remains a priority as it faces overlapping crises, the UN's relief chief Tom Fletcher tells AFP, deploring "brutal" aid budget cuts.
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00:00So we're in a period when we're having to massively prioritize, take brutal choices,
00:18life and death, literally life and death choices, about where to operate and which lives to
00:23save. And the needs of the Afghan people are right up there on that list. You can look
00:29at Sudan for the scale of the crisis. You can look at Gaza for the intensity, the ferocity
00:35of the killing there. Afghanistan is a different kind of challenge, but it's a huge challenge
00:40nonetheless.
00:59We need to take care of the death of a human being. I don't know if it is a war.
01:17I challenge anyone who celebrates aid cuts to sit with a woman who has lost her child
01:38because she had to cycle for three hours while in labor to get the care that she needed.
01:45Come and talk to that woman and then tell me that these aid cuts are worth celebrating.
02:06We've got to rediscover that sense of coexistence and care for the most vulnerable people on
02:12the planet.
02:14I don't think that's gone away just because of a few election results.
02:17I don't think you can put tariffs on humanitarian action.
02:20I think that sense of mission and purpose and solidarity is still out there among humanity
02:28and we just have to find it and mobilize it.