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A Save the Children nutrition counsellor, right, explains to Nelab, 22, how to feed her 11-month-old daughter, Parsto, with therapeutic food, which is used to treat severe acute malnutrition, in Sar-e-Pul province of Afghanistan, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. (Save the Children via AP, File)

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Taliban ban on women workers hits vital aid for Afghans
By RIAZAT BUTT - Associated Press
Thu,01/12/23-12:22AM , 188 Reads
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Last June, a team of female doctors and nurses drove six hours across mountains, dry riverbeds and on unpaved roads to reach victims of a massive earthquake that had just hit eastern Afghanistan, killing more than 1,000 people.
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Afghan women students stand outside the Kabul University in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Dec. 21, 2022. The United Nations' human rights chief on Tuesday Dec. 27, 2022 decried increasing restrictions on women's rights in Afghanistan, urging the country's Taliban rulers to reverse them immediately. He pointed to “terrible consequences” of a decision to bar women from working for non-governmental organizations. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

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Aid groups: Afghans will die because of ban on women in NGOs
By RIAZAT BUTT - Associated Press
Thu,12/29/22-6:28AM , 120 Reads
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Major aid agencies on Thursday warned that Afghans will die because of the Taliban order banning women from working at nongovernmental groups, and stressed that female staff are crucial for the delivery of life-saving humanitarian assistance across war-battered Afghanistan.
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In this Wednesday, May 20, 2015 photo an Afghan boy recovers at a Medecins Sans Frontieres hospital in Kunduz province, north of Kabul, Afghanistan. On Saturday, Dec. 26, 2022, Taliban authorities announced the exclusion of women from NGOs, allegedly because they weren't wearing the headscarf, or hijab, correctly. The move prompted international aid agencies to halt operations in Afghanistan, raising the possibility that millions of people will be left without food, education, health care and other critical services during the harsh winter months. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

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Afghan women determined, frustrated after Taliban NGO ban
By RIAZAT BUTT - Associated Press
Thu,12/29/22-12:02AM , 85 Reads
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Even before the Taliban barred Afghan women from working at non-governmental groups, their forces visited the office of one local organization in the capital Kabul several times to check female staff were obeying rules on dress codes and gender segregation.
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Afghan women chant slogans during a protest against the ban on university education for women, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022. The U.S. has condemned the Taliban for ordering non-governmental groups in Afghanistan to stop employing women, saying the ban will disrupt vital and life-saving assistance to millions. It is the latest blow to female rights and freedoms since the Taliban seized power last year and follows sweeping restrictions on education, employment, clothing and travel.(AP Photo, File)

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4 NGOs suspend work in Afghanistan after Taliban bar women
By RIAZAT BUTT
Sun,12/25/22-1:28AM , 179 Reads
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Four major international aid groups on Sunday suspended their operations in Afghanistan following a decision by the country’s Taliban rulers to ban women from working at non-governmental organizations.
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