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Afghanistan: Taliban orders all NGOs to stop employing women or face closu
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
The Taliban announced the latest decision two years after they asked NGOs to suspend the employment of Afghan women, allegedly as they did not follow Taliban's interpretation of the Islamic dress code for women.
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UN Special Rapporteur urges Taliban to lift ban on Afghan women working in
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Richard Bennett has urged the Taliban to lift the ban on women working in non-governmental organizations.
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Afghan economy impacted by ban on women working in NGOs: OCHA
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a report that the ban on women working in NGOs in Afghanistan has had a major impact on the country's economy, TOLO News reported.
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Blinken calls on Taliban to reverse ban on women working in NGOs
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Antony Blinken urged Taliban to reverse their decision of barring women from working in NGOs.
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Afghanistan: A no women's land
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Ever since the American forces left Afghanistan in August 2021, and the Taliban grasped power, the country gradually started to change into a prison for women.
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Education institutes face economic slump as Taliban suspends higher educat
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Out of 140 Private universities that are functional in Afghanistan, at least 35 are at risk of collapse as the educational institutes in the country are facing an economic slump following the suspension of women attending universities by the Taliban, Tolo news reported.
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Taliban's ban on women working for NGOs in Afghanistan 'self-defeating': O
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Secretary-General Hissein Brahim Taha on Sunday expressed his "exacerbated concerns" over the Taliban's order banning women from working in all local and foreign non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Afghanistan. Taha described the ban on wome
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Qatar expresses 'deep concern' over Taliban banning women from working in
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Qatar's Ministry of Foreign Affairs stressed the need to "respect women's right to work," and emphasised that the freedom to choose and accept work is a "human right."
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