A Save the Children vitamin counsellor, proper, explains to Nelab, 22, the best way to feed her 11-month-old daughter, Parsto, with therapeutic meals, which is used to deal with extreme acute malnutrition, in Sar-e-Pul province of Afghanistan in September 2022.

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A Save the Children vitamin counsellor, proper, explains to Nelab, 22, the best way to feed her 11-month-old daughter, Parsto, with therapeutic meals, which is used to deal with extreme acute malnutrition, in Sar-e-Pul province of Afghanistan in September 2022.

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KABUL, Afghanistan — A senior U.N. official in Afghanistan met on Sunday the deputy prime minister of the Taliban-led authorities to debate a ban on girls working for nongovernmental teams that Afghan authorities have introduced in a series of measures rolling back women’s rights.

The determination by the Taliban authorities to bar girls from NGO work has prompted main worldwide support companies to droop operations within the nation. The ban has raised fears that individuals will likely be disadvantaged of meals, schooling, healthcare and different vital providers, as over half of Afghanistan’s inhabitants wants pressing humanitarian help.

Aid companies have warned the ban may have catastrophic penalties and “hundreds and thousands” of Afghans will die due to the Taliban determination.

The deputy head of the U.N. Mission in Afghanistan, Potzel Markus, met Maulvi Abdul Salam Hanafi within the capital Kabul to debate the ban, in addition to different measures together with barring girls from universities.

“Banning women from working in non-governmental organizations, denying girls and women from education and training, harms millions of people in Afghanistan and prevents the delivery of vital aid to Afghan men, women, and children,” the U.N. mission mentioned.

Potzel is the newest U.N. official to fulfill the Taliban’s management amid mounting worldwide concern over the curbing of ladies’s freedoms in Afghanistan.

Last Monday, the performing head of the U.N. mission Ramiz Alakbarov met Economy Minister Qari Din Mohammed Hanif.

Hanif issued the NGO ban on Dec. 24, allegedly as a result of girls weren’t sporting the Islamic scarf, or hijab, accurately. He mentioned any group discovered not complying with the order may have its license revoked.

Aid companies have been offering important providers and assist within the face of a worsening humanitarian disaster in Afghanistan.

The Taliban takeover in 2021, as U.S. and NATO forces have been within the remaining weeks of their pullout after 20 years of battle, despatched Afghanistan’s economic system right into a tailspin and reworked the nation, driving thousands and thousands into poverty and starvation. Foreign support stopped nearly in a single day.

Sanctions on the Taliban rulers, together with a halt on financial institution transfers and the freezing of billions in Afghanistan’s international property have already restricted entry to world establishments. Funds from support companies helped prop up the nation’s aid-dependent economic system earlier than the Taliban takeover.

U.N. support chief Martin Griffiths is because of go to Afghanistan to debate the ban.

Potzel’s assembly with Hanafi got here as a U.N. survey confirmed {that a} third of NGOs headed by girls in Afghanistan have been compelled to cease 70% of their actions because of the ban and round a 3rd have stopped all their actions.

The U.N. Women’s Department mentioned 86% of the 151 organizations surveyed have both stopped or are functioning partially.

It additionally mentioned the dearth of ladies within the distribution of support has had a major affect on the Afghan inhabitants.