KABUL (SW) – A senior UN Envoy to Afghanistan has reiterated the call to lift the ban on women working in non-governmental organizations and studying in universities.<\/p>\n
Potzel Markus, Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary General, said this in a meeting with the Islamic Emirate\u2019s minister for Promoting the Good and Forbidding the Evil, Mohammad Khalid Hanafi.<\/p>\n
“Latest discriminatory bans against women by Taliban prevent life-saving help reaching Afghans & will hit <\/span>#Afghanistan<\/span> economy. <\/span>@PotzelMarkus <\/span>met today df Taliban Min. Moh. Khalid @MOPVPE1″,tweeted the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan.<\/span><\/p>\n Thousands of people have lost their jobs as a number of international nongovernmental organisations suspended operations operations in Afghanistan in protest against the Islamic Emirate\u2019s move of not allowing their female staff to work.<\/p>\n According to the statistics compiled by Salam Watandar, following the suspension of the activities of four international organizations, including the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), the Care Institute, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and MMR, their employees across Afghanistan, which number 11,441 have stopped working. Among them, 4,373 are women.<\/p>\n ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KABUL (SW) – A senior UN Envoy to Afghanistan has reiterated the call to lift the ban on women working in non-governmental organizations and studying in universities. Potzel Markus, Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary General, said this in a meeting with the Islamic Emirate\u2019s minister for Promoting the Good and Forbidding the Evil, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,976,979,977],"tags":[12,207,322],"class_list":["post-13163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-politics","category-humanitarian-crisis","category-women-rights","tag-afghanistan","tag-women","tag-un"],"views":92,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13166,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13163\/revisions\/13166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}