The United Nations humanitarian chief will go to Afghanistan within the coming weeks to fulfill the best attainable officers inside the Taliban-led administration after it banned feminine help staff, a senior U.N. official mentioned on Thursday.
The news of Martin Griffiths’s journey got here a day after the U.N. mentioned some “time-critical” applications in Afghanistan had quickly stopped and warned many different actions can even doubtless must be paused due to the ban.
“We regret to see that there is already an impact of this decision on our programs,” Ramiz Alakbarov, U.N. humanitarian help coordinator in Afghanistan, informed reporters in New York.
Alakbarov mentioned that the humanitarian wants in Afghanistan have been “enormous,” and the U.N. was dedicated to staying and delivering assist. He mentioned the U.N. was actively engaged on getting the ban reversed.
The Taliban-led administration introduced the ban on feminine help staff on Saturday. It follows a ban imposed final week on girls attending universities. In addition, ladies have been stopped from attending highschool in March.
Separately, 12 international locations and the EU collectively referred to as on the Taliban this week to reverse the ban on feminine help staff and permit girls and ladies to return to highschool.
The overseas ministers of Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Britain, the United States and the EU issued the assertion.
The Taliban seized energy in August final yr. They largely banned ladies’ training when final in energy twenty years in the past however mentioned their insurance policies had modified. The Taliban-led administration has not been acknowledged internationally.
