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Taliban restricting Afghan women from working, seeking health care: UN
Many women were also not allowed to board buses or go to work because they were unmarried or because they did not have a ‘mahram’ to accompany them in public
United Nations: The United Nations issued a new report detailing concerns about the human rights situation in Afghanistan, specifically focusing on the limited rights women are awarded under Taliban rule.
Among those whose working lives have been upended, the Taliban “banned” approximately 400 women workers at a pine nut processing from the workplace and dismissed another 200 at a power plant, the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said in its quarterly report on the human rights situation.
The officials reportedly stated that “it was inappropriate for an unmarried woman to work.”
Many women were also not allowed to board buses or go to work because they were unmarried or because they did not have a ‘mahram’ to accompany them in public.
The report also noted that several women were arbitrarily arrested in Kabul and other locations for “not wearing proper hijab”.
