The Taliban administration in Afghanistan has ordered all local and international non-governmental organizations to stop their female employees from coming to work.
Non-compliance will result in revoking the licenses of said NGOs, the ministry said. The ministry in the letter – whose validity its spokesman Abdul Rahman Habib confirmed to CNN – cites as reasons for the decision the non-observation of Islamic dress rules and other laws and regulations of the Islamic Emirate.
A letter published by the education ministry said the decision was made in a cabinet meeting and the order would go into effect immediately. In a televised news conference on Thursday, the Taliban’s higher education minister said they had banned women from universities for not observing Islamic dress rules and other “Islamic values,” citing female students traveling without a male guardian. The move sparked outrage among women in Afghanistan.
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