From Reuters:
“U.N. aid chief to visit
Afghanistan over female aid worker ban”
(Martin Griffiths, the under
secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator,
briefs reporters on the famine and humanitarian situation in Mogadishu,
Somalia, September 5, 2022.)
U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths
will visit Afghanistan in the coming weeks and will seek to meet the highest
possible officials within the Taliban-led administration after it banned female
aid workers, a senior U.N. official said on Thursday. "We regret to see
that there is already an impact of this decision on our programs," Ramiz
Alakbarov, U.N. humanitarian aid coordinator in Afghanistan, told reporters in
New York.
The United Nations said on
Wednesday that some "time-critical" programs in Afghanistan had
temporarily stopped and warned many other activities will also likely need to
be paused because of the ban. Alakbarov said that the humanitarian needs in
Afghanistan were "enormous" and the United Nations was committed to
staying and delivering help. He said the United Nations was actively working to
get the ban reversed. The ban on female aid workers was announced by the
Islamist Taliban-led administration on Saturday. It follows a ban imposed last
week on women attending universities. Girls were stopped from attending high
school in March. The Taliban seized power in August last year. They largely
banned education of girls when last in power two decades ago but had said their
policies had changed. The Taliban-led administration has not been recognised
internationally.
^ I don’t see this visit or any
like it as being successful. The Taliban don’t care about Human Life. They don’t
care about the Millions of Afghans starving. They don’t care about the Millions
of Afghans dying. They only care about being in power, what people wear and
about hiding Women – probably because so many of the Taliban spent 2+ Decades
only with Men in the Mountains and other isolated places. ^
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