The Ministry of Economy says out of 2,570 local and foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that are registered with the ministry, 611 of them were active in...
A UN-led group of humanitarians are hoping that the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) will allow Afghan women to again work with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) on...
The US is reviewing its approach and engagement with the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) in the context of women’s and human rights violations taking place...
Save the Children said Sunday it was restarting some of its activities with female staff where “reliable assurances had been given for a full and safe...
The head of a major aid group that suspended work in Afghanistan after the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) banned female NGO workers said on Thursday...
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) on Monday issued an information sheet clarifying its cash shipments to Afghanistan and said this mechanism has been...
Following the restrictions on barring women from working at NGOs, the head of the Norwegian Refugee Council says that the presence of female employees is necessary...
Save the Children organization has raised concerns that the recent ban on women working for NGOs will lead to an increase in the number of children...
The UN’s lead humanitarian coordinator has said UN-supplied aid cannot continue if the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) does not lift its ban on women working...
Afghanistan’s Deputy Prime Minister Mawlavi Abdul Kabir said at a meeting with the Secretary-General’s Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan, Markus Potzel, that learning religious and modern...
The United Nations Security Council is due to meet privately next week to discuss a decision by the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) to ban female...
The United Nations said its envoy to Afghanistan had pressed the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s (IEA) rulers Monday to reverse bans on work and education for...
Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) has said that female non-governmental organization (NGO) workers can earn a living through alternative ways....
U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths will visit Afghanistan in the coming weeks and seek to meet the highest possible officials within Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA),...
Heads of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee on Afghanistan, under the umbrella of the World Health Organization, have collectively said banning women from humanitarian work has immediate...
The Agency Coordinating Body for Afghan Relief and Development (ACBAR) said in a statement on Monday night that many of its 183 national and international NGO...
Four international aid agencies including Save the Children said on Sunday they were suspending their humanitarian programmes in Afghanistan in response to the Taliban-run administration’s order...
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) has ordered all national and international NGOs to stop their female employees from working, citing “serious complaints” about their dress...
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) on Saturday ordered all local and foreign NGOs to stop female employees from working, in a move the United Nations said...
Humanitarian actors in Afghanistan (the UN and national and international NGOs) are committed to staying and delivering impartial and neutral assistance to millions of people in...