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UNFPA: Women must be allowed to provide life-saving services

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KABUL (Pajhwok): United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) executive director Dr. Natalia Kanem has strongly condemned recent decrees by the Taliban banning women from higher education and from working with national and international humanitarian organizations.

In a statement posted on UNFPA twitter handle, Dr. Kanem said these decisions violated international human rights law and denied women and girls in Afghanistan the freedom and ability to make their own choices and decisions, depriving them of their autonomy and the rights to which they are entitled as human beings.

“By denying women and girls the right to education, the de facto authorities are . . .

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