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Afghan males working for the United Nations in Kabul will keep house in solidarity with their feminine colleagues after the Taliban prohibited Afghan girls from working for the worldwide group, based on a senior UN official.
Ramiz Alakbarov, the UN Deputy Particular Consultant, Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Afghanistan, known as the Taliban’s resolution an “unparalleled violation of human rights.”
“The lives of Afghanistan girls are at stake,” he stated, including, “It isn’t attainable to succeed in girls with out girls.”
Worldwide UN workers in Afghanistan will keep at their posts, he added.
The UN stated on Wednesday that it had been notified by the Taliban that Afghan girls had been now not permitted to work for the UN in Afghanistan and that the measure can be actively enforced.
The UN condemned the choice, calling the ban “illegal below worldwide legislation.”
A number of feminine UN workers within the nation had already skilled restrictions on their actions because the Taliban seized energy in 2021, together with harassment and detention – prompting the UN to order all its workers of Afghan nationality, of all genders, not to enter the workplace till additional discover, stated the assertion.
The UN Secretary-Normal’s Particular Consultant for Afghanistan, Roza Otunbayeva, is participating with the Taliban on the highest degree to “search a direct reversal of the order,” the assertion added.
The UN stated the Taliban’s transfer was an extension of a earlier ban, enforced final December, that prohibited Afghan girls from working for nationwide and worldwide non-governmental organizations.
“Within the historical past of the United Nations, no different regime has ever tried to ban girls from working for the Group simply because they’re girls. This resolution represents an assault towards girls, the elemental ideas of the UN, and on worldwide legislation,” Otunbayeva stated.
Different figures throughout the group additionally condemned the transfer, with the UN Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights calling it “totally despicable.”
After the Taliban banned feminine assist employees in December, at the least half a dozen main international assist teams quickly suspended their operations in Afghanistan – diminishing the already scarce sources obtainable to a rustic in dire want of them.
The Taliban’s return to energy preceded a deepening humanitarian disaster in Afghanistan, worsening points that had lengthy plagued the nation. After the takeover, the US and its allies froze about $7 billion of the nation’s international reserves and lower off worldwide funding – crippling an economic system closely depending on abroad assist.
Greater than 28 million folks in Afghanistan – about two thirds of the inhabitants – want humanitarian help, the UN estimated in March. It added that many households are going through “catastrophic starvation” and the chance of famine, with meals shares having run out months earlier than the following harvest is due.
For the reason that Taliban returned to energy, they’ve imposed a brutal crackdown on girls’s rights and freedoms, forbidding girls from working in most sectors, accessing some public areas like parks, or touring with no guardian for lengthy distances and different day by day restrictions. Final December, it banned girls from attending college, 9 months after barring women from returning to secondary faculties.
