{"id":25557,"date":"2026-08-20T11:18:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T11:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/?p=25557"},"modified":"2026-08-20T11:18:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T11:18:49","slug":"un-raises-alarm-over-afghanistans-deepening-child-malnutrition-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/?p=25557","title":{"rendered":"UN Raises Alarm Over Afghanistan&#8217;s Deepening Child Malnutrition Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"5570\" data-end=\"6012\"><strong data-start=\"5570\" data-end=\"5599\">Kabul, Afghanistan (HRNW)<\/strong> \u2013 The <strong data-start=\"5606\" data-end=\"5636\">World Food Programme (WFP)<\/strong> is warning that Afghanistan&#8217;s child malnutrition crisis is worsening as reductions in humanitarian assistance leave vulnerable families with fewer resources. The UN agency says children are among those facing the greatest risk as food insecurity, poverty and limited access to essential services continue to place pressure on families.<\/p>\n<h3 data-section-id=\"103mbl6\" data-start=\"6014\" data-end=\"6034\"><span role=\"text\"><strong data-start=\"6018\" data-end=\"6034\">Support HRNW<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"6035\" data-end=\"6130\">Support independent human rights journalism and humanitarian reporting by contributing to HRNW:<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"6132\" data-end=\"6171\"><span class=\"contents\" data-content-reference-start=\"6162\" data-content-reference-end=\"6216\"><span class=\"\" data-state=\"closed\"><a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/?page_id=1083&amp;utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Support HRNW<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 data-section-id=\"jn3j7p\" data-start=\"6173\" data-end=\"6191\"><span role=\"text\"><strong data-start=\"6177\" data-end=\"6191\">Disclaimer<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"6192\" data-end=\"6447\"><strong data-start=\"6192\" data-end=\"6207\">Disclaimer:<\/strong> This report has been prepared by HRNW using publicly available information from WFP and other United Nations sources. HRNW is an independent news platform and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the United Nations or any of its agencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kabul, Afghanistan (HRNW) \u2013 The World Food Programme (WFP) is warning that Afghanistan&#8217;s child malnutrition crisis is worsening as reductions in humanitarian assistance leave vulnerable families with fewer resources. The UN agency says children are among those facing the greatest risk as food insecurity, poverty and limited access to essential services continue to place pressure&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25559,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25557\/revisions\/25559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}