Can the UN help Afghan women without supporting the Taliban?

Last week, the UN Security Council extended the UN’s assistance mission in Afghanistan, ensuring the presence of UN agencies and UN funding in the country at least until March 2022. This comes after UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres warned that the country risks a humanitarian catastrophe. With winter coming and the disruption in governance brought on by the Taliban takeover, Afghanistan’s 600,000 internally displaced people risk famine and their basic human necessities going unmet.