The United Nations Security Council condemned the Taliban on Tuesday for banning women from Afghanistan's universities and non-governmental organizations.
in Afghanistan following the Taliban's ban last week on all foreign and domestic NGOs from employing women.
The ban came days after the Taliban barred women from attending Afghanistan's public and private universities.Billions of dollars in aid from NGOs is on the line as Afghanistan faces one of the world's worst humanitarian crises, especially after the country's economy collapsed after the Taliban took over last year.— more than two-thirds of the country's population — will need humanitarian and other assistance next year, Axios' Laurin-Whitney Gottbrath reports.
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