The initiative for this meeting was taken by the United Arab Emirates and Japan. It is scheduled to take place on Friday January 13th.
The United Nations Security Council will meet behind closed doors next week to discuss a decision by the Taliban’s de facto government to ban women from working in aid organizations, diplomatic sources said Wednesday.
The initiative for this meeting was taken by the United Arab Emirates and Japan. It is scheduled to take place on Friday January 13th.
The ban on women working in aid organizations was announced by the Taliban regime on 24 December 2022.
A few days earlier, the fundamentalist Sunnis announced that they were banning “until further notice” the study of women in universities. In March, they had already banned girls from attending secondary schools.
Martin Griffiths, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, is expected to visit Afghanistan in the coming weeks for talks with officials of the de facto government.
Large international non-governmental organizations have suspended their activity in the country, as they are unable to continue without their workers. The United Nations itself announced at the end of December the suspension of its “critical” programs until further notice.
According to the UN, 97% of Afghans live in poverty, two-thirds of the population need humanitarian aid to survive and 20 million people in the country face the specter of acute famine.
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