{"id":1201,"date":"2022-11-11T15:38:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T20:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unmissionny.orderofmalta.int\/?post_type=news&#038;p=1201"},"modified":"2022-11-11T15:38:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T20:38:46","slug":"counsellor-mr-peter-mcguire-addressed-the-general-assembly-discussing-the-situation-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/unmissionny.orderofmalta.int\/en\/news\/counsellor-mr-peter-mcguire-addressed-the-general-assembly-discussing-the-situation-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Counsellor Mr. Peter McGuire addressed the General Assembly discussing the situation in Afghanistan"},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-1201","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_categories-news","news_categories-statements","news_tags-afghanistan","news_tags-breaking","news_tags-evidence","news_tags-focuson","news_tags-news","news_tags-sovereign-order-of-malta","news_tags-statements","news_tags-un-headquarters","news_tags-united-nations"],"acf":{"evidence":"yes","focus_on":"no","breaking":"yes","news_cover":{"id":1205,"url":"https:\/\/unmissionny.orderofmalta.int\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2022\/11\/IMG_5505.jpg"},"news_content":"<p>On Thursday November 10th Counsellor Mr. Peter McGuire addressed the General Assembly to discuss the situation in Afghanistan all united.<\/p>\n<p>In his statement, Mr. McGuire started stressing\u00a0the importance of education and the difficulties in accessing it that every woman in the country encounters every day, pointing out that Sustainable Development Goals 4 &amp; 5 are not fulfilled:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Secretary General&#8217;s report somberly confirms that the ban on secondary education for females makes Afghanistan the only country in the world to deny girls their full right to education. What&#8217;s more, according to Save the Children, 27% of the Afghanistan youth are engaged in child labor, instead of learning&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Another point he raised was the huge famine problem extremely present &#8211; almost 50% of the Afghanistan population suffers hungry &#8211; and the help that Malteser International, our international relief agency, &#8220;continues to provide urgent humanitarian aid to internally displaced persons (IDPs) in and around Kabul and supports refugees through its team in Pakistan, as urged by the United Nations a year ago&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>To watch the full statement:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Counsellor Mr. Peter McGuire on the situation in Afghanistan at the General Assembly\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pEDsIbPNGdQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","news_gallery":"no"},"news_categories":[{"id":21,"name":"News","slug":"news","description":"","link":"https:\/\/unmissionny.orderofmalta.int\/en\/news-categories\/news\/"},{"id":16,"name":"Statements","slug":"statements","description":"","link":"https:\/\/unmissionny.orderofmalta.int\/en\/news-categories\/statements\/"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unmissionny.orderofmalta.int\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/notizie\/1201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unmissionny.orderofmalta.int\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/notizie"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unmissionny.orderofmalta.int\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unmissionny.orderofmalta.int\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/notizie\/1201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unmissionny.orderofmalta.int\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}