Humanitarian Ethics in Afghanistan: Misogyny 2.0

Abstract

Humanitarian ethics are once again up-in-the-air when it comes to Afghanistan. New ways to harm women and girls—relentless misogyny and virulent attacks on human rights—have left humanitarians compromised and increasingly complicit in action. Aid agencies must now renew efforts for principled engagement and put non-cooperation back on the access-negotiating table—failure risks humanitarians perpetuating the most extreme forms of gender-based discrimination through its morally inadequate view of gender persecution .