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UN official: Ban on women may hamper aid delivery

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KABUL (Pajhwok): Humanitarian aid delivery to Afghanistan may not continue if the ban on women workers of local and foreign aid groups is not lifted, warns a senior UN official.

Martin Griffiths, the head of the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, is expected to visit Kabul soon for talks on problems resulting from the restriction on female NGO staffers.

“Without women working, we can’t deliver for the people who are in fact the primary objects of humanitarian assistance for women and girls,” he said in an interview on Friday.

Speaking to the BBC, the British . . .

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