Act Daily News
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The Taliban administration in Afghanistan has ordered all native and worldwide non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to cease their feminine staff from coming to work, in accordance with a letter by the Ministry of Economy despatched to all licensed NGOs.
Non-compliance will end in revoking the licenses of stated NGOs, the ministry stated.
The ministry within the letter – whose validity its spokesman Abdul Rahman Habib confirmed to Act Daily News – cites as causes for the choice the non-observation of Islamic gown guidelines and different legal guidelines and rules of the Islamic Emirate.
“Lately there have been serious complaints regarding not observing the Islamic hijab and other Islamic Emirate’s laws and regulations,” the letter stated, including that consequently “guidance is given to suspend work of all female employees of National and international non-governmental organizations.”
Earlier this week, the Taliban authorities suspended college training for all feminine college students in Afghanistan.
A spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of Higher Education confirmed the college suspension to Act Daily News on Tuesday. A letter printed by the training ministry stated the choice was made in a cupboard assembly and the order would go into impact instantly.
In a televised news convention on Thursday, the Taliban’s larger training minister stated they’d banned girls from universities for not observing Islamic gown guidelines and different “Islamic values,” citing feminine college students touring with out a male guardian. The transfer sparked outrage amongst girls in Afghanistan.
It marks one more step within the Taliban’s brutal crackdown on the freedoms of Afghan girls, following the hardline Islamist group’s takeover of the nation in August 2021.
Though the Taliban has repeatedly claimed it could shield the rights of women and girls, it has in reality accomplished the other, stripping away the hard-won freedoms they’ve fought tirelessly for over the previous 20 years.
Some of its most placing restrictions have been round training, with ladies barred from returning to secondary colleges in March. The transfer devastated many college students and their households, who described to Act Daily News their dashed desires of turning into medical doctors, lecturers or engineers.