{"id":51516,"date":"2022-12-29T11:44:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T02:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/29\/un-suspends-some-afghanistan-programs-taliban-female-aid-workers-ban"},"modified":"2022-12-29T11:44:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T02:44:29","slug":"un-suspends-some-afghanistan-programs-after-ban-on-female-aid-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51516","title":{"rendered":"UN suspends some Afghanistan programs after ban on female aid workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many humanitarian activities \u2018paused\u2019 as Taliban decision to bar women NGO workers prevents vital services across the country<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations said that some \u201ctime-critical\u201d programs in Afghanistan have temporarily stopped and warned many other activities will also likely need to be paused because of a ban by the Taliban-led administration on women aid workers.<\/p>\n<p>UN aid chief Martin Griffiths, the heads of UN agencies and several aid groups said in a joint statement on Wednesday that women\u2019s \u201cparticipation in aid delivery is not negotiable and must continue\u201d, calling on authorities to reverse the decision.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/29\/un-suspends-some-afghanistan-programs-taliban-female-aid-workers-ban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many humanitarian activities \u2018paused\u2019 as Taliban decision to bar women NGO workers prevents vital services across the countryThe United Nations said that some \u201ctime-critical\u201d programs in Afghanistan have temporarily stopped and warned many other activi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3499,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,61,44,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-united-nations"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51516"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51542,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51516\/revisions\/51542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}