The taliban regime in Afghanistan progressed this Saturday with the repressive measures on the women and published a decree stating that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) will no longer be able to have female employees.
The order was issued by the Economy Minister, Qari Din Mohammad Hanifand requests all NGOs -both national and international- to dismiss all their employees.
“In order to fulfill their responsibility to implement the rules and regulations of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (as the Taliban call themselves), all NGOs have been instructed to suspend all the jobs of their female workers until further notice,” the statement said. document.
As explained by the Minister, the decision is based on the fact that the women did not respect the proper dress code. “There have been serious complaints about non-compliance with the use of the hijab Islamic and other rules and regulations related to women’s work in national and international organizations,” she commented.
In turn, these organizations were informed in the notification sent that “in case of breach of the directive, the organization’s license will be canceled which was issued by this ministry”.
The European Union He condemned this measure and mentioned that he is evaluating the impact that this will have on his aid to the country. “The European Union strongly condemns the Taliban’s recent decision to ban women from working in national and international NGOs,” she told the agency. AFP a spokeswoman for the head of EU foreign policy, Josep Borrell. “We are evaluating the situation and the impact it will have on our aid on the ground.”he added.
Faced with this new provision, two international NGOs mentioned the concern that had arisen in the sector, which ordered the momentary cessation of their activities until they could jointly agree on how to move forward.
In dialogue with the AFP A senior official from one of these entities mentioned that “as of Sunday we will suspend all our activities and soon we will have a meeting of the directors of all the NGOs to decide how to handle this issue.”
Dozens of NGOs operate in Afghanistan, working in multiple sectors in remote areas across the country and where much of their staff is made up of women.
This Saturday’s decision is added to the measure ordered this week to indefinitely prohibit the entry of women to universities -public and private-, also on the grounds that they violated dress codes.
The Minister of Higher Education, Neda Mohammad Nadeem, gave an interview in which he explained that “the hijab is mandatory in Islam” and insisted that Afghan women did not comply with the rule of covering their faces and entire bodies with it. Likewise, he denounced that the girls who studied in a province far from their home “They did not travel with a ‘mahram’ eitheran adult male companion.”
This ban not only provoked a wave of criticism from the entire international community, but also achieved the support from the male sector of the society.
In this sense, this Saturday a surprising manifestation in Kandahar -cradle of the Islamist movement- where about 400 male students boycotted an exam in solidarity with the students and, later, they marched in the streets of the city.
The event was violently suppressed by security forcesas recorded in the videos broadcast on social networks and confirmed by a professor at Mirwais Neeka University.
According to the images, the police fired into the air and chased the students in order to disperse the concentrations and restore order.
The rights of Afghan women are increasingly violated, especially since the Taliban return to powerin it 2021. Since then, they have been imposing their rigorous interpretation of islam -which marked his first stage in power, between 1996 and 2001-, which led, for example, to women being excluded from secondary schoolsthey can not perform government jobs nor can they traveling without the company of a male relative. They were also prohibited from entering parks, gardens, gyms Y public toiletsas well as going out without covering yourself with the hijab, among others.
(With information from AFP, EFE and Europa Press)
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