UN Grounds Afghan Staff As Taliban Bans Female Workers

The United Nations' mission to Afghanistan has asked all Afghan staff not to come to work at least until next month after the Taliban administration barred its women staff from working

- CHARLOTTE GREENFIELD

The United Nations said that the Taliban had communicated that Afghan women would not be able to work for the organisation. Taliban officials have not commented on the order. The UN has said that implementing the order would put it in breach of its charter.

“Through this ban, the Taliban de facto authorities seek to force the United Nations into having to make an appalling choice between staying and delivering in support of the Afghan people and standing by the norms and principles we are duty-bound to uphold,” the UN mission (UNAMA) said.