Key aid group says Taliban signals exemption for women in southern heartland
United NationsReuters An international aid agency in Afghanistan hopes to have an interim arrangement within days to allow its Afghan female staff to return to work in the southern province of Kandahar – the birthplace of the Taliban and home to the supreme spiritual leader. Norwegian Refugee Council Secretary General Jan Egeland spokes to Reuters […]
Male guardianship rules in north Yemen restrict women’s aid work
Dubai, United Arab Emirates Reuters Female aid workers in north Yemen cannot do their jobs tackling one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises as tightening male guardianship rules by Houthi authorities restrict their movement, nine female humanitarians told Reuters. When women refuse to take a guardian, they cannot travel to oversee aid projects, collect data […]
“I feel like I am in prison”: Afghan women aid workers lose hope after Taliban ban
ROHULLAH TALAASH and ANNIE BANERJI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports that as a harsh winter grips the country already in an economic crisis, Afghan women aid workers fear they have little to no money left to survive…