Taliban ban women from NGO work

The United Nations says it is profoundly concerned that women will be banned from working for non-governmental organisations in Afghanistan. An urgent meeting of the organisation's Humanitarian Country Team is due to take place today.

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(Picture: Afghan women in Kabul, Afghanistan. Credit: EPA/STRINGER)