The Taliban in Afghanistan, with a history of detrimental behavior toward women, has now decided all national and foreign nongovernmental groups in Afghanistan that employ women must be shut down.
“The announcement comes two years after they told NGOs to suspend the employment of Afghan women, allegedly because they didn’t wear the Islamic headscarf correctly,” AP reported.
The Afghanistan Ministry of Economy issued this statement on X (as translated by Google):
The Ministry of Economy, as the authority for registering non-Emirati institutions, is responsible for coordinating, leading, and supervising all activities of domestic and foreign NGOs. Therefore, once again, a follow-up circular has been issued to stop the work of female employees in non-Emirati and foreign institutions. In case of non-cooperation, all activities of the offending institution will be suspended and the activity license they received from this ministry…
