December 30, 2022
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G7 tells Taliban to ‘urgently reverse’ ban on women aid workers

The G7 foreign ministers said this ban on Afghan women would also affect the humanitarian assistance provided by international organizations..reports Asian Lite News

The Group of Seven (G7) nations on Thursday expressed concern about the Taliban’s order barring female employees of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from the workplace and asked the regime to urgently reverse this decision.

“We call on the Taliban to urgently reverse this decision,” the UK Foreign Office quoted the G7 foreign ministers as saying in a statement. “The Foreign Ministers of Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway, Switzerland, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States and the High Representative of the European Union are gravely concerned that the Taliban’s reckless and dangerous order barring female employees of national and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from the workplace puts at risk millions of Afghans who depend on humanitarian assistance for their survival,” the statement added.

The G7 foreign ministers said Afghan women are central to humanitarian and basic needs operations. “Unless they participate in aid delivery in Afghanistan, NGOs will be unable to reach the country’s most vulnerable people to provide food, medicine, winterization, and other materials and services they need to live,” the statement read.

The ministers said this ban on Afghan women would also affect the humanitarian assistance provided by international organizations, as international organizations utilize NGOs to deliver such materials and services.

They underlined that the Taliban continue to demonstrate their contempt for the Afghan people’s rights, freedoms, and welfare, particularly women and girls, and their disinterest in normal relations with the international community.

“We support the Afghan people’s calls for girls and women to return to work, school, and university, and for women to continue to play essential roles in humanitarian and basic needs assistance delivery, and we urge the Taliban to respect the political, economic, social, and cultural rights of women and girls in Afghanistan,” the G7 statement read.

The grouping also said they are in close contact with the United Nations, who are urging, also on behalf of all international donors, that the Taliban reverse this decision immediately.

“This would avoid any disruption and allow the continuation of all humanitarian operations of international and national NGOs,” the statement added. (ANI)

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