The United Nations Mission in Afghanistan met with Taliban officials in Kabul yesterday to learn about a new decision by the ruling movement in the Asian country that Afghan women working with a UN delegation cannot work throughout the country. The United Nations has announced that the Taliban have expanded their restrictions to prevent Afghan female employees from working across the country. She has “the basics” in the distribution of humanitarian aid, and she noted on Twitter that her Afghan employees cannot work in Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan.
A spokesman for the United Nations Secretary-General, Stephane Dujarric, told reporters that the mission was informed that the de facto authorities had issued an order to bar local female United Nations staff from work, adding: “We have been informed through the various channels through which the ban is to all parts of the country.”
About 3,900 people work for the United Nations in Afghanistan, 3,300 of whom, according to the United Nations, are Afghan citizens. Among these employees are about 600 women, 400 of whom are Afghans.
Dujarric added: “Secretary General António Guterres finds such a ban unacceptable and unimaginable,” denouncing the desire to “undermine the ability of humanitarian organizations to help those in need.” in it we have to work with women to distribute humanitarian aid to women.
Some 23 million men, women and children are receiving humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan, which is facing one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
Taliban government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said: “He is wondering what happened when Agence France-Presse contacted him after the UN Mission published its tweet banning women from working in Nangarhar province.
