The UN has warned that Afghanistan is approaching a “cliff edge” after the Taliban banned women from working with the international organisation in the country, threatening its ability to deliver aid amid a deepening humanitarian crisis.
The Taliban have imposed a systematic crackdown on women’s rights since taking power in Afghanistan nearly two years ago after the US withdrawal, turning their regime into one of the world’s most repressive.
The militant group, which fought a two-decade insurgency against the US, Nato and its local allies before seizing control in August 2021, has barred girls from school and decreed that women must cover their faces in public.
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