Female employees of NGOs told to stop coming to work in latest move to curtail women’s freedoms in Afghanistan
Women in Kabul protest earlier this month after the Taliban ordered Afghan universities to close to women.Women in Kabul protest earlier this month after the Taliban ordered Afghan universities to close to women.Afghanistan’s Taliban-run administration has ordered all local and foreign non-governmental organisations to stop female employees from coming to work, according to a letter from the economy ministry.
The letter, the contents of which were confirmed by economy ministry spokesperson Abdulrahman Habib, said female employees of NGOs were not allowed to work until further notice. It stated that the move was the result of some women allegedly not adhering to the administration’s interpretation of Islamic dress code for women.Habib said the ban applied to organisations under Afghanistan’s coordinating body for humanitarian organisations, known as ACBAR.
While ACBAR does not include the United Nations, it does include more than 180 local and international NGOs and the UN often contracts such groups registered in Afghanistan to carry out its humanitarian work. Quite how this order will affect UN agencies, which have a large presence in Afghanistan delivering services amid the country’s humanitarian crisis, is not clear.This latest attack on women’s rights and freedoms comes days after the administration ordered
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