'Violation of Islamic legislation...': OIC on Taliban ban on ladies NGO employees | World News

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation has referred to as on the Taliban to rethink the choice to ban ladies from working for NGOs, calling it a “violation of the needs of Islamic legislation and the methodology of the Messenger of Allah.”

Afghanistan's Taliban-run administration had final yr ordered all native and international non-governmental organisations to cease feminine workers from coming to work - in what marked as one more crackdown on ladies's freedom since their return to energy in August, 2021. This got here after it had already suspended college schooling for ladies and secondary education for ladies till what they termed as additional discover.

The assertion was reportedly issued by OIC in its remaining communique of the Extraordinary Assembly of the OIC Govt Committee on ‘The Latest Developments and the humanitarian state of affairs in Afghanistan’, reported information company ANI, citing native information channel TOLO.

Expressing considerations over "the worsening humanitarian and human rights state of affairs in Afghanistan", the group of 57 member states referred to as on Islamic Emirate to respect human rights, together with the rights of girls and youngsters.

In an earlier assertion, OIC secretary-general Hissein Brahim expressed deep considerations on the developments of the "unlucky occasions" in Afghanistan.

He famous that "we conveyed, by way of my particular envoy, messages to the de facto authority through which we emphasised the significance of the federal government's fulfilment of its earlier guarantees to open faculties for ladies in mild of the strong and clear foundations of the Islamic faith that encourage schooling."

United Nations excessive commissioner for human rights Volker Tur too this month urged the Taliban to revoke a raft of insurance policies that focus on the rights of girls and women, noting each the "horrible, cascading results" on their lives and the destabilizing dangers such insurance policies pose to Afghan society.

(With ANI inputs)