Final month the Taliban ordered all native and international support teams to cease letting feminine employees work.
Kabul:
The pinnacle of a significant support group that suspended work in Afghanistan after the Taliban banned feminine NGO employees mentioned on Thursday he would write to the administration’s senior figures in Kandahar and ask them to vary the coverage.
Jan Egeland, the Secretary Basic of the Norwegian Refugee Council, informed Reuters it was essential to have interaction with the management within the southern metropolis, house to the Taliban’s supreme chief, Haibatullah Akhundzada.
“The letter I am drafting will say: We all know you, we labored in … areas managed by the Taliban for a few years. You already know us.
“You already know that our feminine employees have at all times used the hijab. They’ve had … a male chaperone on longer journey. Your persons are struggling due to your ban on feminine employees. “
The Taliban administration final month ordered all native and international support teams to cease letting feminine employees work till additional discover.
It mentioned the transfer, which was condemned globally, was justified as a result of some ladies had not adhered to the Taliban’s interpretation of Islamic costume code.
Many NGOs suspended operations in response, saying they wanted feminine employees to succeed in ladies within the conservative nation.
Egeland, who visited the capital Kabul this week, mentioned officers there had informed him they have been in favour of girls working at NGOs, however that the order had come from Kandahar. Spokespeople for the Taliban administration didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Egeland mentioned he had organized conferences in Kandahar with the Ulema Council, made up of non secular students, and the provincial governor, because it was not doable for international humanitarian companies to fulfill straight with Akhundzada.
However after dangerous climate halted flights, he mentioned he would write as a substitute and attempt to prepare on-line conferences.
He mentioned he welcomed some indicators of flexibility in well being and others areas, the place some feminine and male employees labored alongside one another. However he known as for a full reversal of the ban.
“Our male employees can not go to widows, single moms and their kids, to all the weak feminine teams right here and thereby have been prevented from doing all work,” he mentioned.
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