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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Charlotte Greenfield

UN tells Afghan staff to stay home until May after Taliban ban on female workers

AFP

The United Nations’ mission to Afghanistan has asked all Afghan staff not to come to work at least until next month after the Taliban administration barred its women staff from working,

The United Nations said that the Taliban had communicated that Afghan women would not be able to work for the organisation. Taliban officials have not commented on the order. The UN has said that implementing the order would put it in breach of its charter.

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