Norway support feminine staff return to Taliban heartland

A world support company in Afghanistan has resumed operations within the southern province of Kandahar – the birthplace of the Taliban and residential to its supreme non secular chief – after its Afghan feminine workers have been allowed to return to work.

The transfer comes after Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) Secretary Normal Jan Egeland advised Reuters final month that key Taliban leaders in Kandahar had signaled a willingness to conform to an interim association for NRC feminine support staff.

“I’m glad to verify that we’ve been capable of resume most of our humanitarian operations in Kandahar in addition to numerous different areas in Afghanistan,” Egeland, who was the UN support chief from 2003-06, posted on Twitter on Monday.

“All our work is for girls & males, ladies & boys alike, & with equal participation of our feminine & male humanitarian colleagues,” Egeland wrote.

The Taliban administration was not instantly out there for remark.

The Taliban seized energy in August 2021 as US-led forces withdrew after 20 years of conflict.

In April, Taliban authorities started implementing a ban on Afghan girls working for the UN after stopping girls working for support teams in December. UN and support officers mentioned the orders got here from Taliban leaders in Kandahar.

The UN and support teams have been attempting to carve out exemptions for girls to ship support, significantly in well being and schooling.

The Taliban administration has been promising since January a set of written tips to permit support teams to function with feminine workers.

Egeland mentioned final month that when he complained that the rules have been taking too lengthy, Taliban officers in Kandahar prompt an interim association might be agreed to permit Afghan girls to return to work within the workplace and discipline.

The Taliban say they respect girls’s rights in accordance with their strict interpretation of Islamic legislation. They’ve additionally tightened controls on girls’s entry to public life, barring girls and ladies from college and highschool.

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