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		</div><p>The United Nations’ human rights chief has decried increasing restrictions on women’s rights in Afghanistan, urging the country’s Taliban rulers to reverse them immediately.</p>
<p>Taliban authorities stopped university education for women last week, sparking international outrage and demonstrations in Afghan cities.</p>
<p>On Saturday, they announced the exclusion of women from NGO work, a move that has already prompted four major international aid agencies to suspend operations in Afghanistan.</p>
<p>UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk pointed to “terrible consequences” of a decision to bar women from working for non-governmental organisations.</p>
<p>“No country can develop — indeed survive — socially and economically with half its population excluded,” he said in a statement issued in Geneva.</p>
<p>“These unfathomable restrictions placed on women and girls will not only increase the suffering of all Afghans but, I fear, pose a risk beyond Afghanistan’s borders.”</p>
<p>“This latest decree by the de facto authorities will have terrible consequences for women and for all Afghan people,” Mr Turk said.</p>
<p>He added that banning women from working for NGOs would deprive them and their families of incomes and of the right to “contribute positively” to the country’s development.</p>
<p>“The ban will significantly impair, if not destroy, the capacity of these NGOs to deliver the essential services on which so many vulnerable Afghans depend,” he said.</p>
<p>Despite initially promising a more moderate rule respecting rights for women and minorities when they took power last year, the Taliban have widely implemented their strict interpretation of Islamic law, or Sharia.</p>
<p>They have banned girls from middle school and secondary school, restricted women from most employment and ordered them to wear head-to-toe clothing in public. Women are also banned from parks and gyms.</p>
<p>“Women and girls cannot be denied their inherent rights,” Mr Turk said.</p>
<p>“Attempts by the de facto authorities to relegate them to silence and invisibility will not succeed — it will merely harm all Afghans, compound their suffering, and impede the country’s development.”</p>
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