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The highest-ranking woman at the United Nations says she used everything in her “toolbox” during meetings with Taliban ministers to try to reverse their crackdown on Afghan women and girls

Kabul (AFP) - Two senior UN leaders said Wednesday they were pressing the Taliban to reverse its restrictions on Afghan women, particularly a ban on working in aid delivery, with one official warning that "famine is looming" during the harsh winter.

Extreme weather compounds a humanitarian crisis in poverty-stricken Afghanistan, leaving scores of people and vital livestock dead.

Matiullah Wesa set up the voluntary organisation Pen Path in 2009.

The United Nations' aid chief visited Kabul on Monday and raised concerns over women's education and work with the Taliban administration's acting minister of foreign affairs, an Afghan ministry statement said. The Taliban-run administration last month ordered NGOs not to allow most female employees to work, prompting many aid agencies…

The United Nations' aid chief visited Kabul on Monday and raised concerns over women's education and work with the Taliban administration's acting minister of foreign affairs, an Afghan ministry statement said.

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Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai had also been convicted of drug-dealing in Italy

Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai had also been convicted of drug-dealing in Italy.