联合国呼吁向阿富汗经济注入资金

Hello, this is Danielle Jalowiecka with the BBC News.

大家好，丹妮尔·耶娃叶斯卡为您播报BBC新闻。

The UN Secretary General António Guterres has said the world must take action to avert collapse in Afghanistan by injecting cash directly into its economy.

联合国秘书长安东尼奥·古特雷斯表示，国际社会必须采取行动，直接向阿富汗经济注入资金，以避免其崩溃。

He said this was necessary to stave off a catastrophic economic collapse.

他表示，这对于避免阿富汗出现灾难性的经济崩溃是必要的。

Charles Haviland reports.

请听查尔斯·哈维兰的报道。

Since the Taliban takeover, Afghanistan's assets abroad have been frozen and much development aid suspended.

自从塔利班掌权以来，阿富汗的海外资产被冻结，许多发展援助也被暂停。

As a result, ordinary Afghans are dealing with not only political repression, but increased economic hardship.

其结果是，普通阿富汗人不仅要面对政治压迫，还要面对日益严重的经济困难。

The UN chief says this must be alleviated without compromising principles.

联合国秘书长表示，必须在不妥协原则的情况下缓解这一问题。

Mr Guterres accused the Taliban of breaking promises on women's rights, saying if they were excluded from economic activity, society would never recover.

古特雷斯指责塔利班违背了对女性权利的承诺，称如果女性不能参与经济活动，社会将永远无法恢复。

On Tuesday, the G20 countries meet to discuss how to tackle both the humanitarian situation and the militant threat in Afghanistan.

周二，20国集团会议将讨论如何解决阿富汗的人道主义形势和武装威胁问题。

A report by a joint committee of British MPs has described the government's early response to the coronavirus pandemic as one of the worst national public health failures ever.

英国国会议员联合委员会的一份报告称，政府对冠状病毒大流行的早期处理是有史以来最失败国家公共卫生危机响应之一。

The chair of the Health and Social Care Select Committee Jeremy Hunt said the government had not prepared for a pandemic of this nature.

卫生和社会保障特别委员会主席杰里米·亨特表示，政府没有为这种性质的病毒大流行做好准备。

We were over prepared for a flu-like pandemic.

我们对类似流感的大流行的准备过多。

And as a result of that, we weren't open enough to the approaches taken by places like Taiwan and Korea, which had experienced SARS and adopted a very different strategy.

正因为此，我们没有采取台湾和韩国等地采取的方法，这些地方经历过非典，因此采取了非常不同的策略。

They managed to avoid national lockdowns in the first year of the pandemic.

在病毒大流行的第一年，它们成功地避免了全面封锁。

So, how do we be more open to what they did?

所以，现在的问题是我们如何能够像它们一样采用及时有效的措施呢？

We, too, could have avoided the need for lockdown. But when that became inevitable, we also took too long.

我们本来也可以避免封锁的。然而，当全面封锁已不可避免时，我们同样花了太长时间实施。

The Republican governor of Texas Greg Abbott has issued an executive order, barring all Covid vaccine mandates in the state, including private businesses.

德克萨斯州共和党州长格雷格·艾伯特发布了一项行政命令，在该州内禁止强制注射新冠疫苗，私营企业也包括在内。

The move pits Mr Abbott against President Biden who last month called on employers to require their workers to be vaccinated.

此举让艾伯特与美国总统拜登对立起来，因为拜登上月呼吁企业要求他们的员工接种疫苗。

Mr Biden has repeatedly asked the Texas governor to follow public health guidelines on the pandemic.

拜登已多次要求德克萨斯州州长遵循有关疫情的公共卫生指导方针。

UNICEF says there's been a marked rise in the number of children making the treacherous journey from South to Central America this year, hoping to reach the United States.

联合国儿童基金会表示，今年涉险从南美来到中美洲并希望进入美国的儿童人数明显上升。

Will Grant reports.

请听威尔·格兰特的报道。

So far in 2021, around 19,000 children have made what is one of the most dangerous journeys in the world, crossing the treacherous and dense jungle of the Darien Gap.

到目前为止，在2021年，大约有19000名儿童穿越了危险而浓密的达连地堑丛林，这是世界上最危险的路线之一。

That's already three times higher than over the past five years combined.

该数字已经是过去五年总和的三倍。

UNICEF also found that around half the children making the trip are below the age of five.

联合国儿童基金会还发现，约半数踏上这一旅程的儿童年龄不到5岁。

But beyond the high number and their ages, it's also the conditions the children are exposed to in the jungle region which separates Columbia and Panama, which is of most concern.

除了他们的人数和年龄之外，最令人担忧的就是这些儿童在穿越哥伦比亚和巴拿马之间的丛林地区的时所处的险境。

The report highlights the high level of violence, including sexual abuse, trafficking, and extortion from criminal gangs operating in the region.

报告强调了该地区犯罪团伙的严重暴力行为，包括性侵、人口贩卖和敲诈勒索。

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