KABUL: The United Nations said Thursday that it has suspended its assistance to Afghans returning from neighboring countries after the Taliban government prevented women staff members from working. “On 9 September, in light of instructions from the de facto authorities preventing Afghan female staff from working, UNHCR was compelled to halt activities at its encashment centers across Afghanistan,” the UN’s refugee agency said. It explained that these are places where Afghans returning from Pakistan and Iran receive money and other support.

La « décision a été prise pour des raisons opérationnelles, car il est impossible, sans personnel féminin, d’interroger les 52 % de migrants de retour qui sont des femmes », a…

KABUL: The United Nations said Thursday that it has suspended its assistance to Afghans returning from neighboring countries after the Taliban government prevented women staff…

GENEVA: The U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) has closed eight centres providing support to Afghan refugees forced back to the country because Taliban authorities are preventing female…