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  It's not like the UN is a government that can do something about it. They can just say "Hey, stop misbehaving please" and that's it. It's for the member countries to take action.
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  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 70%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  The United Nations said on Wednesday that some "Time-critical" programs in Afghanistan have temporarily stopped and warned many other activities will also likely need to be paused because of a ban by the Taliban-led administration on women aid workers.
  UN aid chief Martin Griffiths, the heads of UN agencies and several aid groups said in a joint statement that women's "Participation in aid delivery is not negotiable and must continue," calling on the authorities to reverse the decision.
  The UN statement said the ban on female aid workers "Comes at a time when more than 28 million people in Afghanistan ... require assistance to survive as the country grapples with the risk of famine conditions, economic decline, entrenched poverty and a brutal winter."
  
  
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