Taliban allows girls to work at Norwegian Refugee Council offices… what about the ban?

“After the militant group clamped down on women and girls since it seized power in August 2021, the Taliban government on Monday allowed the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) to return the girls to its offices in several provinces in Afghanistan.”

“NRC Secretary-General Jan Egeland confirmed on his Twitter account that Afghan girls are returning to work at the NRC, ‏resuming humanitarian operations in Kandahar and a number of other areas in Afghanistan, adding that the work is being carried out with equal participation in humanitarian work, both female and male.”

On December 24, 2022, Taliban authorities announced that 1,260 NGOs operating in the country would not cooperate with Afghan women because of “serious complaints” about the wearing of headscarves and face covering, but the UN was not involved.
Some 23 million men, women and children benefit from humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan, which is experiencing one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
About 3,900 people work for the United Nations in Afghanistan, 3,300 of whom are Afghan nationals, according to UN figures. Of these, approximately 600 are women, 400 of whom are Afghan.

The movement, which took power in Afghanistan in August 2021, banned girls from attending school after the sixth grade, banned women from attending university and most jobs, and prohibited women from entering public places such as parks and gyms.
Informed sources had previously reported signs of a rift within the militant movement over women’s rights, especially those related to education.

At the time, it explained that some ministers in the Taliban government had sent a letter to the leader of the movement, asking him to reconsider banning girls’ education and women’s work, but he replied with one sentence: “If you can prove that Islam allows girls over the age of 12 to leave the house, I will allow girls to learn and work.”
Although the Taliban pledged greater flexibility on some issues, including the education of women, after returning to power they quickly reverted to the fundamentalist strain that characterized their rule between 1996 and 2001. They were gradually excluded from public life and were banned from jobs after they were paid little to induce them to stay home.