United States: The UN security council has denounced the Taliban-led administration’s ban on women attending universities or working for humanitarian aid groups.

The 15-member council declared in a statement that the ban on women and girls attending high school and university in Afghanistan “represents an increasing erosion for the respect of human rights and fundamental freedoms.”

The council added that the ban “would have a significant and immediate impact for humanitarian operations in country, including those of the United Nations.”

“These restrictions contradict the commitments made by the Taliban to the Afghan people as well as the expectations of the international community,” the security council, which also expressed its full support for the UN political mission in Afghanistan, United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), observed.

The rulers of Afghanistan banned women from working in non-governmental organizations by claiming that some of the workers had not adhered to their interpretation of Islamic dress code.

Earlier, Taliban had suspended university education for women and secondary schooling for girls.

The government further restricted women from most fields of employment, ordered them to wear head-to-toe clothing in public, and banned them from parks and gyms.

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