This announcement comes only four days after the government’s decision to prohibit Afghanes from taking courses in public and private universities.
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The Taliban authorities have ordered national and international non -governmental organizations (NGOs) to no longer make women work. The Ministry of the Economy would have received complaints that women did not respect an appropriate dress code, he said on Saturday December 24 at the France-Presse (AFP) agency.
“There have been serious complaints concerning the non-compliance with the Islamic hijab and other rules and regulations relating to the work of women in national and international organizations,” said the ministry, responsible for approving licenses NGOs operating in Afghanistan, in a letter that AFP has been provided. A ministry spokesman confirmed that the Ministry of the Economy had sent this order to NGOs. “In the event of the negligence of the directive (…) the organization of the organization which has been issued by this ministry will be canceled,” specifies the mail.
higher education also prohibited
This announcement comes only four days after the Taliban government’s decision to ban Afghan women from taking courses in public and private universities in the country for an indefinite period.
The Minister of Higher Education, Neda Mohammad Nadeem, explained in a television interview having made this decision because the “students who went to university (…) did not respect the instructions on the hijab”. “Hijab is compulsory in Islam,” he insisted, referring to the obligation made to women in Afghanistan to cover their face and body entirely.
Despite their promises to be more flexible, the Taliban returned to the ultra-rigorist interpretation of Islam which had marked their first passage to power (1996-2001).
Since their return to the management of the country in August 2021, liberticide measures have multiplied in particular against women who have been gradually excluded from public life and excluded from colleges and high schools.