The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has resumed operations in Afghanistan after the Taliban agreed a to allow its female employees return to work.
Jan Egeland, the NRC’s Secretary General, said in a tweet on Monday that “I am glad to confirm that we have been able to resume most of our humanitarian operations in Kandahar as well as a number of other regions in Afghanistan.”
“All our work is for women & men, girls & boys alike, & with equal participation of our female & male humanitarian colleagues,” he added.
The Taliban banned women from working as aid workers in December 2022.
Following the ban, Jan Egeland travelled to Afghanistan to lobby Taliban leaders to reverse their decision. He left the country empty handed, accusing the group’s supreme leader being behind the ban.
