Top UN officials warned Wednesday that a Taliban government order banning Afghan women from working for its mission in the country would violate the world body’s charter and demanded the ban be revoked.
The United Nations also announced it had instructed all its Afghan staff, men and women, not to report to the office after the ban on its women staff was confirmed.
The Taliban authorities have imposed a slew of restrictions on Afghan women since seizing power in 2021, including banning them from higher education and many government jobs.
The increasing curbs are reminiscent of the Taliban’s first government between 1996 and 2001, when the UN said they were responsible for repeated human rights violations — particularly against girls and women.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres demanded the ban on the organisation’s women staff in Afghanistan be “immediately revoked”.
“This is a violation of the inalienable fundamental human rights of women,” spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in a statement on behalf of Guterres on Wednesday.বিস্তারিত