UN says Taliban ‘order’ bans women Afghan staff from working throughout the country
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres would view any ban on Afghan women working for the United Nations in their country as “unacceptable and, frankly, inconceivable”, he said.
Spokespeople for the Taliban administration and the Afghan information ministry did not immediately reply to requests for comment.
Two U.N. sources told Reuters that concerns over the enforcement of the ban had prompted the United Nations to ask all staff not to come to the office for 48 hours.
“We’re still looking into how this development would affect out operations in the country and we are expecting to have more meetings with the de facto authorities tomorrow in Kabul. We’re trying to seek some clarity,” Dujarric said.
“We do not have anything in writing as of now.”
The United Nations Mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA) earlier on Tuesday expressed concern that female staff in the eastern province of Nangarhar had been stopped from reporting to work.
