Barring women from working for the U.N. was the latest move by the Taliban undermining humanitarian organizations' capacity to carry out vital aid work in the country, which has plunged into a grave humanitarian crisis.
, UNAMA, received word of an order by the de facto authorities that bans female national staff members of the United Nations from working," Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for the U.N. Secretary-General, said Tuesday."We are still looking into how this development would affect our operations in the country and we expect more meetings with the de facto authorities tomorrow in Kabul in which we are trying to seek some clarity.
Falk said Dujarric told journalists at U.N. Headquarters on Tuesday that the global body's aid agencies in Afghanistan"cannot do it without women," calling them"the backbone of our humanitarian operations there." He said that of the nearly 4,000 U.N. staff in Afghanistan, about 3,300 are Afghan nationals, though he couldn't say specifically how many were women.
U.N. Special rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan Richard Bennett urged the Taliban to"reverse the decision immediately," saying in a tweet that the move was a violation of the U.N. charter and would"seriously impact essential services for Afghans."Since taking power back in August 2021, the Taliban government has methodically reimposed the severe restrictions on women and girls that it enforced during its previous reign, which ended with the U.S.-led invasion in 2001.
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