The United Nations has renewed its criticism of the Taliban's decision to prevent women from working with them in Afghanistan, stressing that it puts them in front of a "terrible choice" regarding the continuation of its operations.
A statement by the United Nations Mission in Afghanistan, today (Tuesday), stated that through this ban, the de facto authorities of the Taliban seek to force the United Nations to make a terrible choice between staying and providing support to the Afghan people or respecting the standards and principles that we must abide by.
The United Nations confirmed in its statement that the head of the mission, Rosa Otbayeva, had initiated an “operational review” to determine the next steps, and the mission asked its Afghan employees not to go to their offices before the fifth of next May.
According to the United Nations, it "must be clear that the de facto authorities bear any negative consequences of this crisis for the Afghan people."
The international organization announced on the 4th of last April that the Taliban authorities had issued an order to prevent their Afghan female employees in all parts of the country from working for them.
Afghanistan is witnessing one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world, as more than half of its 38 million people face severe food insecurity, while malnutrition threatens about three million children.
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