On Saturday, the Taliban ordered all non-governmental organizations not to allow female employees to come to work. On Sunday, the aid organizations Save the Children, the Norwegian Refugee Council and Care say that the decision by the Taliban regime prevents them from reaching children, women and men in desperate need in Afghanistan, and that they are therefore forced to suspend their work in the country until further notice. Secretary-General of the Norwegian Refugee Council, Jan Egeland in Kabul in 2019. Photo: Becky Bakr Abdulla / The Norwegian Refugee Council – We are freezing all our operations, and are starting to negotiate with the Taliban to get equal rights for women and men to work again. So we are not withdrawing from the country, says Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council, Jan Egeland to news. – Depending on the women He states that the organization has 470 women employed in the country. – We are completely dependent on these women to reach out with help to women and children, says Egeland. In a joint statement, the three organizations demand that both men and women can carry on with life-saving assistance on an equal basis. – Afghanistan is in a deep and acute crisis. Many millions are on the brink of starvation. Many millions freeze. There are really miserable conditions there now, says Egeland. Now women can neither study at university nor work as aid workers in Afghanistan. Photo: Ebrahim Noroozi / AP – Dressing against the rules The decision by the Taliban applies to both foreign and Afghan organisations, according to an official letter from the Ministry of Industry in the country. A spokesman for the ministry says that for the time being women will not be allowed to work because some of them have dressed contrary to the Taliban’s interpretation of the dress code for women. Women banned from universities A few days ago it became known that the Ministry of Education in Afghanistan had decided to ban women from universities in the country until further notice. In a letter, public and private universities are instructed to suspend access to female students. This document from the Taliban, published on Twitter by Human Rights Watch, shows the order that women will no longer be taught at Afghan universities. Photo: Taliban/HRW The letter was signed by Neda Mohammad Nadeem, who is the Minister of Education. After the Taliban took over power in the country last summer, they have also made it more difficult for girls to attend secondary and secondary school. Now they can only go to school until they finish the sixth grade.
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