Taliban orders NGOs in Afghanistan not to employ women or face closure

Government bars females from many jobs, public spaces, higher education

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Afghan women have been barred by the Taliban from working in many jobs and from most public places. © AP

(AP) -- The Taliban says it will close all national and foreign nongovernmental groups in Afghanistan employing women.

It comes two years after they told NGOs to suspend the employment of Afghan women, allegedly because they didn't wear the Islamic headscarf correctly.

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