Taliban rulers ban women from working at non-governmental organizations
NPRTaliban rulers ban women from working at non-governmental organizations STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: On a visit to Afghanistan last summer, we naturally did all we could to hear from women. INSKEEP: I will mention that I heard a lot about the Norwegian Refugee Council's work when in Afghanistan a few months ago. One is that the quality of our work would drop immediately, and we couldn't even reach directly women. INSKEEP: I want to mention that before the last few weeks, it seemed like the question of women and girls in Afghanistan was moving in a positive direction, by which I mean even though the Taliban had banned girls from many levels of school, there was clearly a kind of democratic debate and democratic insistence on this in many parts of the country.