Paris considers the Taliban’s cruelty against women to be “intolerable”.

resolution Afghan force Preventing women from working there non Governmental Organization Paris does not satisfy. Thus, on Monday, France denounced the “obscurantism” of the Taliban.

This new prohibition against women (…) once again demonstrates (…) obscurantism Taliban Those who make the choice to systematically exclude women from Afghan society “, in the words of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, considering that “this cruelty against them (…) is intolerable.”

Many NGOs are on the way out

Paris “condemns in the strongest terms” the decision that “seriously impedes the issuance of LHumanitarian aidAt the expense of the Afghan people (…) at a time when the country is going through a serious economic and humanitarian crisis.

Several foreign organizations suspended their activities in Afghanistan on Sunday after NGOs were banned from working with women. Afghanistan’s economy ministry on Saturday ordered all NGOs to stop working with women or risk having their operating license suspended. On the other hand, it is not specified whether the directive relates to foreign female employees of NGOs.

In the letter it sent to local and international NGOs, the ministry said it made this decision after receiving “serious complaints” that workers there did not respect the wearing of the “Islamic headscarf”.

The noose around women has been tightening in recent months. The Taliban, who returned to power in August 2021, prevented them from attending public and private universities less than a week earlier, for the same reasons as not respecting the dress code. They have previously been excluded from high school.