Taliban ban Afghan women from working in NGOs
The Taliban ordered all national and international Non-Governmental Organisations to stop their women employees from working after “serious complaints” about their dress code, the Ministry of Economy said on Saturday.
The order threatened to suspend the operating licences of the NGOs that failed to implement the directive. The latest restriction comes less than a week after the Taliban authorities banned women from attending universities, prompting global outrage and protests.
"The ministry of economy … instructs all organisations to stop females working until further notice,” the notification said.“In case of negligence of the above directive, the license of the organisation which has been issued by this ministry, will be cancelled,” it added.
The Taliban had already barred teenage girls from secondary school, and women have been pushed out of many government jobs, prevented from travelling without a male relative and ordered to cover up outside of the home, ideally with a burqa. They are also not allowed to enter parks or gardens.
The Taliban have also resumed public floggings of men and women in recent weeks, widening their implementation of an extreme interpretation of Islamic law.