UN official meets Taliban deputy premier over women NGO ban

UN official meets Taliban deputy premier over women NGO ban

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ” A older U.N. official inside Afghanistan met on Sunday the deputy main minister of the Taliban-led management to talk over a ban on women employed for non-governmental groups that Afghan authorities have announced inside a series of measures rolling spine women™s rights.

The decision by the Taliban management to bar women from NGO labour has prompted greatest international assistance agencies to suspend operations inside the country. The ban has raised fears that people will exist deprived of food, education, healthcare accompanied by every one one other accompanied by other critical services, while over fifty per cent of of Afghanistan™s inhabitants needs acute humanitarian assistance.

Aid agencies have warned the ban will have catastrophic consequences accompanied by every one one other accompanied by hundreds accompanied by every one one other accompanied by thousands of Afghans will die since of the Taliban decision.

The deputy head of the U.N. Mission inside Afghanistan, Potzel Markus, met Maulvi Abdul Salam Hanafi inside the earliest city Kabul to talk over the ban, while well while other measures including barring women from universities.

Banning women from employed inside non-governmental organizations, denying girls accompanied by every one one other accompanied by women from education accompanied by every one one other accompanied by training, harms millions of people inside Afghanistan accompanied by every one one other accompanied by prevents the conveyance of vital assistance to Afghan men, women, accompanied by every one one other accompanied by children, the U.N. position of employment said.

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Potzel is the latest U.N. official to meet the Taliban™s leadership amid mounting international exist concerning over the curtailing of women™s freedoms inside Afghanistan.

Last Monday, the acting head of the U.N. position of employment Ramiz Alakbarov met Economy Minister Qari Din Mohammed Hanif.

Hanif issued the NGO ban on Dec. 24, allegedly since women weren™t wearing the Islamic headscarf, or hijab, correctly. He said some organization found not complying accompanied by the order will have its license revoked.

Aid agencies have been providing essential services accompanied by every one one other accompanied by support inside the face of a worsening humanitarian crisis inside Afghanistan.

The Taliban takeover inside 2021, while U.S. accompanied by every one one other accompanied by NATO forces were inside the final weeks of their pullout following 20 years of war, sent Afghanistan™s affluence into a tailspin accompanied by every one one other accompanied by transformed the country, driving millions into penury accompanied by every one one other accompanied by hunger. Foreign assistance stopped almost overnight.

Sanctions on the Taliban rulers, including a halt on border transfers accompanied by every one one other accompanied by the freezing of billions inside Afghanistan™s overseas assets have by that hour dated restricted access to worldwide institutions. Funds from assistance agencies helped prop up the country™s aid-dependent affluence earlier to the Taliban takeover.

U.N. assistance leader Martin Griffiths is due to pay someone a call Afghanistan to talk over the ban.

Potzel™s gathering accompanied by Hanafi came while a U.N. look at showed that a third of NGOs headed by women inside Afghanistan have been forced to place an extremity to 70% of their activities due to the ban accompanied by every one one other accompanied by around a third have stopped all their activities.

The U.N. Women™s Department said 86% of the 151 organizations surveyed have either stopped or are functioning partially.

It excessively said the lack of women inside the distribution of assistance has had a significant impact on the Afghan population.