UN to stop some programs in Afghanistan after Taliban bans women aid workers – National | 24CA News
The United Nations mentioned on Wednesday that some “time-critical” packages in Afghanistan have briefly stopped and warned many different actions will even probably must be paused due to a ban by the Taliban-led administration on girls support employees.
U.N. support chief Martin Griffiths, the heads of U.N. businesses and several other support teams mentioned in a joint assertion that girls’s “participation in aid delivery is not negotiable and must continue,” calling on the authorities to reverse the choice.
“Banning women from humanitarian work has immediate life-threatening consequences for all Afghans. Already, some time-critical programs have had to stop temporarily due to lack of female staff,” learn the assertion.
“We cannot ignore the operational constraints now facing us as a humanitarian community,” it mentioned. “We will endeavor to continue lifesaving, time-critical activities … But we foresee that many activities will need to be paused as we cannot deliver principled humanitarian assistance without female aid workers.”
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The ban on feminine support employees was introduced by the Islamist Taliban-led administration on Saturday. It follows a ban imposed final week on girls attending universities. Girls have been stopped from attending highschool in March.
“No country can afford to exclude half of its population from contributing to society,” mentioned the assertion, which was additionally signed by the heads of UNICEF, the World Food Programme, the World Health Organization, the U.N. Development Programme, and the U.N. excessive commissioners for refugees and human rights.
Separately, 12 nations and the EU collectively known as on the Taliban to reverse the ban on feminine support employees and permit girls and women to return to high school.
The assertion was issued by the overseas ministers of Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Britain, the United States and the EU.
The ban on feminine support employees “puts at risk millions of Afghans who depend on humanitarian assistance for their survival,” the assertion mentioned.
Four main international teams, whose humanitarian support has reached thousands and thousands of Afghans, mentioned on Sunday that they have been suspending operations as a result of they have been unable to run their packages with out feminine employees.
The U.N. assertion mentioned the ban on feminine support employees “comes at a time when more than 28 million people in Afghanistan … require assistance to survive as the country grapples with the risk of famine conditions, economic decline, entrenched poverty and a brutal winter.”
The U.N. businesses and support teams – which included World Vision International, CARE International, Save the Children U.S., Mercy Corps and InterAction – pledged to “remain resolute in our commitment to deliver independent, principled, lifesaving assistance to all the women, men and children who need it.”
The Taliban seized energy in August final 12 months. They largely banned training of ladies when final in energy twenty years in the past however had mentioned their insurance policies had modified. The Taliban-led administration has not been acknowledged internationally.
(Reporting by Michelle Nichols; Editing by Eric Beech and Grant McCool)
