Four international aid groups say they cannot work effectively without female staff and Red Cross warns of ‘catastrophic’ consequences
A Taliban fighter stands guard as people receive food aid in Kabul earlier this year. Aid groups say they cannot operate in the country without their female staff.A Taliban fighter stands guard as people receive food aid in Kabul earlier this year. Aid groups say they cannot operate in the country without their female staff.Last modified on Mon 26 Dec 2022 04.35 GMTfollowing a decision by the Taliban regime to ban women from working at non-governmental organisations.
The four NGOs have been providing healthcare, education, child protection and nutrition services and support amid plummeting humanitarian conditions.Neil Turner, the Norwegian Refugee Council’s chief for Afghanistan, told the Associated Press the group had 468 female staff in the country. In a statement, the International Committee of the Red Cross warned that excluding women from schools and NGO work in Afghanistan “can and will lead to catastrophic humanitarian consequences in the short to long term”. The Taliban alsoLast month, in an interview with the AP, a top official from the the Red Cross, Martin Schuepp, said more Afghans would struggle for survival as living conditions deteriorate in the year ahead.
Decker, tweeting in Dari on Sunday, said: “As a representative of the largest donor of humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan, I feel I have the right to an explanation of how the Taliban intends to prevent women and children from starving, when women are no longer permitted to distribute assistance to other women and children.”
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