Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban movement announced on Monday that will withdraw the operating permit from all domestic and foreign non-governmental organizations in the event that they will employ women. TASR informs according to Monday’s AP report.
The announcement by the Taliban government comes two years after non-governmental organizations in Afghanistan banned the employment of women allegedly because they do not wear the Islamic headscarf according to regulations.
In a letter published on Sunday on the X platform, the Afghan Ministry of Economy warned that in case of non-compliance with this regulation, NGOs will lose their permission to operate in Afghanistan. At the same time, the government re-ordered stopping all work by women in non-Taliban-run institutionsfollows from the letter.
“In case non-cooperation, all activities of the given institution will be cancelled a the permission for the activity of this institution granted by the Ministry will be withdrawn,” added the department.
The Taliban movement in Afghanistan before banned women there from many jobs as well as from most public placesreminds AP. Women are also excluded from the education process from the sixth grade.
