UN: Taliban ban on women aid workers is potential death blow

The UN humanitarian chief warned Monday that the Taliban's ban on women aid workers in Afghanistan is “a potential death blow” to many important humanitarian programmes. If the Taliban don't make exceptions to their edict “this would be catastrophic,” Martin Griffiths said at a news conference. He said a delegation including international aid groups made the case that Afghan women are critical to humanitarian operations during meetings last week with nine Taliban officials, including Afghanistan's foreign affairs and economy ministers.

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