Three foreign aid organizations, including Save the Children, announced on Sunday they would suspend their work in Afghanistan. They are temporarily suspending their operations because the Taliban today banned all non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from using female employees.
“While we seek clarity on this announcement, we suspend our programs and ask that men and women continue our efforts to save lives in Afghanistan alike,” Save the Children, the Norwegian Refugee Council and CARE said in a joint statement. .
The fundamentalist Taliban government threatens to withdraw the licenses of NGOs that do not respect the new rules. Some female employees do not follow the strict interpretation of the Islamic dress code, is the reasoning. There were going to be a lot of complaints about it. More than 180 national and international NGOs are active in Afghanistan.
Source: BNR
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