This is how women in Afghanistan face restrictions to work

The ban on women at work and education only exempts health workers and security personnel. MSFHowever, they do not have the guarantee that they can continue working without obstacles.

In this context in which Afghanistan unfolds and in which humanitarian and non-governmental aid is needed, as well as the women’s participation in these organizations it became a necessity, and all these situations led to some employees of Doctors without borders express their fears for the future.

In The Truth News We have clearly followed up on the situation in Afghanistan, the same country that also demanded that women’s venues such as beauty salons close, once again violating women and banning them from public life.

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“In the hospital we have many patients who are women. When they get sick or need to deliver their babies, they must have a place to go. If the Taliban prevent female staff from working, no one will be able to take care of them,” said Farzaneh1, an Afghan MSF employee, who also said that “A woman’s health affects the health of her entire family: if there is no access to prenatal and postnatal, the lives of children will also be at risk. This ban will not only affect women. It will affect the country.”

Meanwhile, also another MSF member said that if this ban advances to female health workers, patients will also have problems and many families will not accept women being cared for by men, which can harm Afghan women in many ways. , it would even increase maternal and infant mortality.

Other women workers have said that they have large families and if they were left without their jobs, no one would be able to support them, making it clear that in Afghanistan, many women are the heads of their families, because men cannot work because they have fled the country or have dead.

The most vulnerable groups in Afghanistan are made up of women, boys and girls, which is why MSF and their women are equally concerned about the rest of the country’s women.

“The recent ban has already caused psychological problems for many women and their families. We fear that each working day may be the last. Getting to the offices seems increasingly difficult. I can already see that people at checkpoints are looking for any excuse to prevent women from moving freely. For example, my sister was recently ill and when she was traveling to our hospital for a check-up, she was not allowed to go because she did not have a mahram (accompanying person). She stayed there for about 50 minutes, outside in the cold. When my brother arrived, they were allowed to leave. It is difficult to know that we are something less”, explains a worker.

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Ban on Afghan women to work

In recent days, women in Afghanistan, due to the Taliban regime, have experienced prohibitions from different sides of society, since to enforce Islamic law, they began to ban women from public life.

This public life involves education, preventing them from accessing higher education facilities and even secondary education.

The Taliban’s ban on women was quickly extended to women workers as well, affecting foreign NGOs and the Afghan ones themselves, who were urged to prevent women from continuing to work because they did not wear the Islamic veil correctly, and in This week, women were also prohibited from running premises and working in beauty shops or clothing stores.