The Taliban have announced a ban on all national and foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Afghanistan that employ women. This is the latest in a series of restrictions on women's rights since the Taliban took power in August 2021. The Economy Ministry warned that NGOs failing to comply will lose their operating license. The UN expressed deep concern over the shrinking space for women in Afghanistan and the impact on humanitarian assistance.
The Taliban say they will close all national and foreign nongovernmental groups in Afghanistan employing women, the latest crackdown on women’s rights since they took power in August 2021. The announcement comes two years after they told NGOs to suspend the employment of Afghan women, allegedly because they didn’t wear the Islamic headscarf correctly.
” It’s the Taliban’s latest attempt to control or intervene in NGO activity. Earlier this month, the UN Security Council heard that an increasing proportion of female Afghan humanitarian workers were prevented from doing their work even though relief work remains essential. According to Tom Fletcher, a senior UN official, the proportion of humanitarian organizations reporting that their female or male staff were stopped by the Taliban’s morality police has also increased.
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