bill to: The Taliban government in Afghanistan has started the process of extracting oil from wells in the north of the country. According to Afghanistan’s official media Bukhtar News Agency, the Acting Minister of Mines and Petroleum, Sheikh Shahabuddin Dilawar, while addressing the ceremony, said that the employment of technical and non-technical personnel for oil…
Female employees of the Norwegian Refugee Council working in Afghanistan, file photo In Kandahar province, Afghanistan, the Taliban have banned female employees from working on a refugee project. An official letter issued by the Taliban has banned women from working, although some organizations have made exceptions for their female employees. The letter said that the…
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has developed a new working model for government employees, which includes 4 days of work and 3 days of rest. According to Emirati media from Abu Dhabi, the Federal Authority for Government Human Resources has issued new instructions. Emirati media also said that government employees should work four days a…
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) stopped working with the US-led Gulf Maritime Alliance. The UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement, without giving a reason for the move, that the UAE withdrew its participation in the 38-nation Combined Maritime Forces two months ago. According to reports, the US-led Gulf Maritime Alliance is protecting…
File photo Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, has strongly criticized people working from home, calling it an abuse of office workers and morally wrong. According to foreign media reports, while giving an interview to an international channel, Elon Musk took those who work from home with bare hands. It has to come….
The resolution passed unanimously by the 15-member body in New York, calls for the “full, equal, meaningful and safe participation of women and girls in Afghanistan”, and urges all countries and organisations with influence on the fundamentalist rulers of the country, “to promote an urgent reversal” of policies which have in effect erased women from public…
Photo courtesy of Indian Media 2 Muslims who have been working in a temple in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh since 1988 will now be evicted from there. According to Indian media, the state government has issued orders that henceforth Muslim employees cannot work in the management committee of the temple. According to reports,…
In statements on Wednesday, Secretary-General António Guterres was joined by deputy chief Amina Mohammed, in describing the latest escalation of the de facto authorities’ suppression of women, as a violation of their inalienable fundamental human rights. “It also violates Afghanistan’s obligations under international human rights law, and infringes on the principle of non-discrimination, which is a core tenet…
“Our colleagues on the ground at the UN mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) received word of an order by the de facto authorities that bans female national staff members of the UN from working,” Stéphane Dujarric, spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General, told reporters at UN Headquarters during the regular daily briefing. “We are still looking into…
US Secretary of State Anthony Blanken has said that the US is working to bring dozens of Americans back from Afghanistan. While giving a statement to the US Congress, Foreign Minister Anthony Blanken added that 44 Americans in Afghanistan are working to help. These Americans want to leave Afghanistan and are being held by Taliban…
