UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations stated on Wednesday that some “time-critical” applications in Afghanistan have briefly stopped and warned many different actions can even possible must be paused due to a ban by the Taliban-led administration on ladies support staff.
UN support chief Martin Griffiths, the heads of UN companies and several other support teams stated in a joint assertion that girls’s “participation in aid delivery is not negotiable and must continue,” calling on the authorities to reverse the choice.
“Banning women from humanitarian work has immediate life-threatening consequences for all Afghans. Already, some time-critical programmes have had to stop temporarily due to lack of female staff,” learn the assertion.
“We cannot ignore the operational constraints now facing us as a humanitarian community,” it stated. “We will endeavour to continue lifesaving, time-critical activities … But we foresee that many activities will need to be paused as we cannot deliver principled humanitarian assistance without female aid workers.”
The ban on feminine support staff was introduced by the Islamist Taliban-led administration on Saturday. It follows a ban imposed final week on ladies attending universities. Girls had been stopped from attending highschool in March.
“No country can afford to exclude half of its population from contributing to society,” stated the assertion, which was additionally signed by the heads of UNICEF, the World Food Programme, the World Health Organization, the UN Development Programme, and the UN excessive commissioners for refugees and human rights.
Four main international teams, whose humanitarian support has reached tens of millions of Afghans, stated on Sunday that they had been suspending operations as a result of they had been unable to run their applications with out feminine workers.
The UN assertion stated the ban on feminine support staff “comes at a time when more than 28 million people in Afghanistan … require assistance to survive as the country grapples with the risk of famine conditions, economic decline, entrenched poverty and a brutal winter.”
The UN companies and support teams – which included World Vision International, CARE International, Save the Children US, Mercy Corps and InterAction – pledged to “remain resolute in our commitment to deliver independent, principled, lifesaving assistance to all the women, men and children who need it.”
The Taliban seized energy in August final yr. They largely banned training of ladies when final in energy twenty years in the past however had stated their insurance policies had modified. The Taliban-led administration has not been acknowledged internationally. — Reuters
