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The Taliban administration in Afghanistan has ordered all native and worldwide non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to cease their feminine workers from coming to work, in accordance with a letter by the Ministry of Financial system despatched to all licensed NGOs.
Non-compliance will end in revoking the licenses of stated NGOs, the ministry stated.
The ministry within the letter – whose validity its spokesman Abdul Rahman Habib confirmed to CNN – cites as causes for the choice the non-observation of Islamic gown guidelines and different legal guidelines and laws of the Islamic Emirate.
“Currently there have been severe complaints relating to not observing the Islamic hijab and different Islamic Emirate’s legal guidelines and laws,” the letter stated, including that consequently “steering is given to droop work of all feminine workers of Nationwide and worldwide non-governmental organizations.”
Earlier this week, the Taliban authorities suspended university education for all feminine college students in Afghanistan.
A spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of Greater Schooling confirmed the college suspension to CNN on Tuesday. A letter printed by the training ministry stated the choice was made in a cupboard assembly and the order would go into impact instantly.
In a televised information convention on Thursday, the Taliban’s larger training minister stated that they had banned ladies from universities for not observing Islamic gown guidelines and different “Islamic values,” citing feminine college students touring with out a male guardian. The transfer sparked outrage amongst ladies in Afghanistan.
It marks yet another step within the Taliban’s brutal crackdown on the freedoms of Afghan ladies, following the hardline Islamist group’s takeover of the nation in August 2021.
Although the Taliban has repeatedly claimed it could defend the rights of women and girls, it has actually finished the alternative, stripping away the hard-won freedoms they’ve fought tirelessly for over the previous twenty years.
A few of its most putting restrictions have been round training, with ladies barred from returning to secondary faculties in March. The transfer devastated many college students and their households, who described to CNN their dashed dreams of turning into docs, academics or engineers.
