Aid agencies halt Afghan work after Taliban ban on female staff
International resource organizations halted their paintings in Afghanistan on Monday after the Taliban regime banned them from using woman staff.
ActionAid, Christian Aid, Save the Children, the Norwegian Refugee Council, CARE and the International Rescue Committee — which employs 3,000 ladies in Afghanistan — have all suspended operations.
Christian Aid was “hastily looking for clarity … and urging the government to opposite the ban,” head of worldwide packages Ray Hasan stated.
“While we do this, we’re sadly pausing the paintings of our packages.
“Millions of humans in Afghanistan are at the verge of starvation. Reports that households are so determined they had been pressured to promote their youngsters to shop for meals are completely heartbreaking.”
Hasan stated that a ban on woman resource people might “handiest curtail our cappotential to assist the developing quantity of humans in want.”
ActionAid stated that if ladies have been banned from running with them it might “save you us from achieving out to 1/2 of of the populace which can be already reeling from hunger.”
It stated: “ActionAid has made the tough choice to briefly halt maximum of its packages in Afghanistan till a clearer image emerges.”
The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan advised the Taliban management to opposite the ban.
“Millions of Afghans want humanitarian help and getting rid of obstacles is vital,” it stated.
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation voiced its issue over the ban and advised the Taliban to rethink it. Secretary-General Hissein Brahim Taha stated it meditated a willful coverage to further
restrict Afghan ladies’s rights.
He stated this “confusing choice” might now no longer handiest deprive Afghan ladies of a supply of profits for themselves and their households, however additionally severely have an effect on humanitarian and alleviation operations in Afghanistan.
The OIC leader defined the ban as self-defeating and advised Kabul government to rethink it “for the sake of social inclusion of ladies and the continuation of a much-wished global humanitarian protection internet in Afghanistan.”
Last week the Taliban additionally banned ladies from attending university, prompting worldwide outrage and protests in a few Afghan cities.
