Afghanistan's Taliban-run administration on Saturday ordered all local and foreign non-governmental organizations to suspend employing women.
Women also banned from attending classes at Kabul mosques; moves follow countrywide university banAfghan women chant slogans during a protest against the Taliban's ban on university education for women in Kabul, Afghanistan's capital, on Thursday. The country's Taliban-run administration on Saturday ordered all local and foreign non-governmental organizations to suspend employing women.
The ministry said it had received "serious complaints" about female staff working for NGOs not wearing the "correct" headscarf, or hijab. It was not immediately clear if the order applies to all women or only Afghan women working at the NGOs.More details were not immediately available amid concerns the latest Taliban measure could be a stepping stone to a blanket ban on Afghan women leaving the home.
Another NGO worker, a 24-year-old from Jalalabad working for the Norwegian Refugee Council, said it was "the worst moment of my life." He gave no further details, and did not elaborate on the ages of those who would be affected by the ban or how it would be enforced. It was also not explained why the measure applies only to Kabul mosques.Earlier on Saturday, Taliban security forces used a water cannon to disperse women protesting the ban on university education for women in the western city of Herat, eyewitnesses said.
"They had no agenda, they just came here to make a film," he said, without mentioning the violence against the women or the use of the water cannon.There has been widespread international condemnation of the university ban, including from Muslim-majority countries such as Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, as well as warnings from the United States and the G7 group of major industrial nations that the policy will have consequences for the Taliban.
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