Thursday, G7 foreign ministers urged the Taliban to “urgently reverse” a ban on women working in the aid sector of Afghanistan.
Since the Taliban gained control of Afghanistan last year, the ban is the most recent setback for women’s rights.
The Taliban additionally banished ladies from going to colleges recently, provoking worldwide shock and fights in a few Afghan urban communities.
“gravely concerned that the Taliban’s reckless and dangerous order… puts at risk millions of Afghans who depend on humanitarian assistance for their survival,” the G7 ministers, along with those from Australia, Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, and the Netherlands, stated in a joint statement.
In the British foreign ministry’s statement, they said, “We call on the Taliban to urgently reverse this decision.”
In response to the ban, six aid organizations halted operations in Afghanistan.
Save the Children, Christian Aid, ActionAid, the Norwegian Refugee Council, and CARE were among them.
The International Rescue Committee, which employs 3,000 Afghan women and responds to emergencies in health, education, and other areas, also announced that it would cease operations.
Women play a crucial role in humanitarian and basic needs efforts. Except if they take part in help conveyance in Afghanistan, NGOs will not be able to contact the country’s most weak individuals to give food, medication, winterization, and different materials and administrations they need to live,” the G7 articulation said.
It went on to say that “The Taliban continue to demonstrate their contempt for the rights, freedoms, and welfare of the Afghan people, especially women and girls.”
Millions of people in Afghanistan are “on the verge of starvation,” according to Christian Aid.
Ray Hasan, head of global programs for Christian Aid, stated, “Reports that families are so desperate they have been forced to sell their children to buy food are utterly heartbreaking.”
He added that banning aid workers who were women would “only curtail our ability to help the growing number of people in need.”
Millions of people across the nation rely on the humanitarian assistance provided by a vast network of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) by international donors at the time of the Taliban’s ban.
Since the Taliban took power in August of last year, the country’s economic crisis has only gotten worse, resulting in Washington freezing billions of dollars worth of assets and cutting aid from foreign donors.
Protests were violently dispersed by the authorities after the minister of higher education banned women from universities on the grounds that they were also improperly dressed.
The Taliban had already prohibited teenage girls from attending secondary school since their return to power in August of last year.
In addition, women have been ordered to cover up outside of the home, ideally with a burqa, and have been banned from traveling without a male relative.
The United States, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the European Union are all members of the G7 group.