Due to a ban on hiring female workers, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has been obliged to halt its operations in Afghanistan. This has prevented the organization from assisting women and homes headed by women, according to the organization’s press release.
Several humanitarian organizations have been forced to halt operations in Afghanistan as a result of a Taliban rule banning the employment of women.
According to Jan Egeland, secretary general of NRC, the group cannot function without its female employees, who make up about one-third of the workforce and are an essential component of their humanitarian response. He urged the Taliban leadership to overturn this choice right away for the benefit of the entire populace.
No information concerning the prohibition was provided to NRC, and there is no proof of the organization’s purported failure to adhere to cultural norms.
They have always been eager and able to work within the constraints of cultural and religious standards, according to Egeland, and he has great hopes that the authorities would work with them to understand what has to be done to make it possible for women to return to the workforce.
Many homes in the nation are headed by women, and as a result of these changes, they may no longer be able to receive humanitarian aid at all.
Without female employees, delivering relief to women and children is very dangerous and difficult, especially in severely conservative regions.
The restriction, according to Egeland, is another setback for Afghan women.
He claimed that this is just one more illustration of how the powerful in Afghanistan are denying women’s rights. These choices are crushing the aspirations of women across the nation, together with restrictions on women’s and girls’ access to education.
In addition to having an effect on the provision of life-saving aid, this will have an impact on thousands of jobs in the middle of a severe economic crisis.
It is difficult to comprehend how terrible this must be for the female personnel, especially for those who are the family’s primary wage earners, to face such abrupt professional and financial uncertainty.
