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Podcast: ICRC Humanitarian Law and Policy Blog
Episode: Carve-out in Kabul: hard won resolution lifts humanitarian roadblock in Afghanistan
Description: On 22 December 2021, the United Nations Security Council voted unanimously to adopt a resolution on Afghanistan introducing, for the only the second time in 30 UN sanction regimes, an explicit humanitarian carve-out. For those providing humanitarian assistance and supporting basic human needs in Afghanistan, donors, and private partners, the exemption gives much-needed assurance that they can continue their operations in Afghanistan without fear they are running afoul of UN sanctions against members of the Taliban and associated persons and entities, as well as the Haqqani Network.
What is a humanitarian carve-out, why was it so urgently necessary in the first place, and...