Top UN officials and dozens of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) active in Afghanistan will meet on Sunday to discuss the Taliban’s ban on female NGO workers. The purpose of the conversations is to think about how to proceed now, the emergency services say.
On Saturday, the fundamentalist Taliban government threatened 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.
Approach
“A meeting of the National Humanitarian Team is scheduled for later today to discuss and discuss how to address this issue,” a spokesman for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said. The country team is made up of senior UN officials and representatives of dozens of Afghan and international NGOs who coordinate aid distribution in the country. The meeting will discuss whether to halt all construction following the latest Taliban directive, some NGO officials said.
The United Nations, asking the Taliban to explain the order, condemned the new guidelines. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken tweeted on Saturday that the ban was “devastating” for Afghans because it cuts off “vital, life-saving assistance to millions of people.”
Source: BNR
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