Taliban say they will close all NGOs employing Afghan women
Voice of America
FILE - Taliban fighters stand guard in Kabul, Dec. 26, 2022.
The Taliban say they will close all national and foreign nongovernmental groups in Afghanistan employing women. It comes two years after they told NGOs to suspend the employment of Afghan women, allegedly because they didn’t wear the Islamic headscarf correctly.
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