UN human rights chief Volker Turk on Tuesday said Afghanistan’s governing Taliban authorities must reverse their ban on Afghan women working for NGOs.
Since the Taliban’s return to power in August 2021, women have been progressively erased from public spaces, prompting the United Nations to denounce the “gender apartheid” the administration has established.
“I am deeply alarmed at the recent announcement by the de facto authorities in Afghanistan that non-governmental organisations’ licences will be revoked if they continue to employ Afghan women. This is absolutely the wrong path being taken,” Turk said in a statement.
On Thursday, the Taliban’s economy ministry wrote to ACBAR, the Agency Coordinating Body for Afghan Relief and Development which brings together around 200 NGOs, telling them to comply with a decree issued two years ago which bars them from employing Afghan women.
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