UN condemns Taliban ban on Afghan women working at NGOs

UN human rights chief Volker Turk said Tuesday that Afghanistan’s governing Taliban authorities must reverse their ban on Afghan women working for NGOs.

Since the Taliban’s return to power in August 2021, women have been progressively erased from public spaces, prompting the United Nations to denounce the “gender apartheid” the administration has established.

“I am deeply alarmed at the recent announcement by the de facto authorities in Afghanistan that non-governmental organisations’...