Humanitarian groups want the Taliban to lift the ban on female aid workers

Last month, the Taliban announced a ban on women working in national and international nongovernmental organizations in Afghanistan. Jan Egeland, head of the Norwegian Refugee Council, just returned from Kabul, where female members of his team insisted the ban needs to end.

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