Taliban allegedly harassing female Afghan United Nations workers

The United Nations mission in Afghanistan has accused Taliban authorities of harassing its Afghan feminine staff, urging native officers to respect all its employees in a press release Monday.

“There was an rising sample of harassment of Afghan U.N. feminine employees by the de facto authorities,” the statement said, referring to the nation’s Taliban rulers.

Three Afghan ladies working for the UN had been not too long ago detained briefly and questioned by “armed safety brokers of the de facto authorities,” it added.

The UN known as for a right away finish to all such acts of “intimidation and harassment concentrating on its Afghan feminine employees,” and reminded native authorities of their obligations beneath worldwide regulation to ensure the security and safety of all UN personnel working in Afghanistan.

A press release launched by the Taliban late Monday night denied that native authorities had “detained” any UN staff.

The assertion added in southern Kandahar province authorities had stopped a bunch of ladies, however once they realized they had been UN staff, stopped questioning them.

A yr after the Taliban took energy in Afghanistan, teenage women are nonetheless barred from college and ladies are required to cowl themselves from head to toe in public, with solely their eyes exhibiting. Onerous-liners seem to carry sway within the Taliban-led authorities, which imposed extreme restrictions on entry to training and jobs for women and girls, regardless of preliminary guarantees on the contrary.

On Saturday, Taliban authorities shut down five girls’ schools above the sixth grade in japanese Afghanistan’s Paktia province which had briefly opened after a advice by tribal elders and faculty principals.

Earlier this month, 4 women’ faculties in Gardez, the provincial capital, and one within the Samkani district started working with out formal permission from the Taliban Schooling Ministry.

On Saturday, all 5 faculties had been as soon as once more closed by authorities.

The UN has repeatedly urged the Taliban to make sure respect for worldwide human rights within the nation.