Afghanistan: aid without women
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The Taliban have banned women from working for aid agencies. This week on the Inside Geneva podcast, host Imogen Foulkes asks humanitarians what this means for Afghanistan\\u2019s future.
\\u201cHow can women be able to receive healthcare when there are no women doctors?\\u201d asks Adam Combs of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC).
Afghan women and girls are banned from secondary school and university too.
\\u201cIf there is no woman attending school, and then university, who will be tomorrow\\u2019s doctors, tomorrow\\u2019s midwives, nurses?\\u201d asks Filipe Ribeiro of M\\xe9decins Sans Fronti\\xe8res (MSF).
28 million people in Afghanistan need humanitarian aid, 6 million are close to famine. Why is the focus on restricting what women do?
\\u201cThese are acts committed for the purpose of establishing dominance and systematic oppression by men over women in all aspects of public life as well as private life,\\u201d says Pooja Patel of the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR).
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