Schmidt 1

Cadance Schmidt

Lori Fisher

Model UN

1 February 2022

República Federativa do Brazil

Brazil wants to open refugee camps to the displaced and encourage other countries to

commit to this also. However, the Taliban is against it, and believes that the UN should not be

involved in their crisis. Brazil has an amazing record and wants to not only open their borders for

safety, but help teach Afghans about agriculture and growth of social and environmental

movements, to address the lack of food, little access to schools, and much more.

People are fleeing the country due to recent military activity between the Taliban and the Afghan

security forces. Freezing temperatures make for poor sleeping conditions, many who are sleeping

outside or in tents. There is a lack of basic supplies to survive such as food, due to recent drought

and poor soil conditions, and medicine for another wave of pandemic. With how many people

are fleeing Afghanistan, Brazil and other countries want to open up refugee camps and

encourage the UN and other countries to open their borders and open refugee camps as well.

With over 6 million women and children fleeing Afghanistan and not having places to go this is

creating more problems with poverty, jobs, schooling, etc, which further exacerbates the crisis.

Since the US government left Afghanistan and their own military has taken over, the Taliban has
un-done over 20 years of hard work. This has also created problems as the UN made a promise

to protect and take care of all the women of Afghanistan, but with the Taliban retaliating and

threatening any help from other countries that promise has been broken making life for women

and girls in Afghanistan much harder. This needs to be solved immediately because Afghanistan

is on the verge of a “collapsing country”. In addition to the refugees, Afghanistan faces severe

agricultural despair. Not only is it difficult for them to grow a variety of crops, other than

poppies, they have little access to money to help them get their food to market “Afghanistan has

virtually no agribusiness in place. In addition, it is difficult for farmers to gain access to credit”

(ReliefWeb, pargh.8, line 1-2). This creates another issue of no import or export business.

Lastly, with the humanitarian rights not being properly protected, there is little hope for the

economy getting better. There must be social harmony and basic human rights and needs made

available to the Afghanistan people.

In order to make this possible we need to start making it known to the UN and other

countries how many Afghans are being displaced. We will be granting as many humanitarian

visas as we can. So far, “243 have been issued, but pales in comparison to the 1500 still waiting”

(BrazilianReport, pargh.2). As for the agricultural dilemma, being an expert in agricultural

issues has a great advantage of helping out Afghanistan with their issues and the ones they need

to address. We are able to provide tips and possible resolutions to the many problems. As well as

having achieved many quadrupling agricultural achievements, we can use it to help Afghanistan

by “providing unproductive soil into cultivation, offering aid to farmers, and using improved

seeds and irrigation methods.(ReliefWeb, pargh.2) “With over 9000 technological advances in
our country over the years”(ReliefWeb, pargh.4) we can show the Afghan how to reduce costs

and protect their natural resources.

Work Cited

Relief Web, “ Does Brazil hold the key to Afghan stabilization”, reliefweb.int, March 2, 2010

reliefweb.int/report/afghanistan/afghanistan-does-brazil-hold-key-afghan-stabilization

Gov.br, “ Situation in Afghanistan”, www.gov.br, August 17, 2021

www.gov.br/mre/en/contact-us/press-area/press-releases/situation-in-afghanistan

U.S Library of Congress, “ Social Conflict and Participation”, countrystudies.us,

countrystudies.us/brazil/54.htm

Adre Spigarlol, “ Brazil expects 1,500 refugee requests fromAfghan nationals”,

brazilian.report,December 1, 2021.
 brazilian.report/liveblog/2021/12/01/refugee-requests-afghan-nationals/#:~:text=Brazil's

20Foreign%20Affairs%20Minister%20Carlos,them%20to%20Congress%20on%20Mond

ay.