NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Jan Egeland, secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, about the Taliban's decision to ban women from working at NGOs.

Jan Egeland, secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, spent a week meeting with Taliban officials, pressing them to reverse their ban on women working for non-governmental organizations ...

Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council, NRC, Jan Egeland, listens to a question during an interview with The Associated Press in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. The Taliban's ...

NPR's Leila Fadel talks with Jan Egeland, secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, about the looming economic crisis since Afghanistan's western-backed government collapsed to the Taliban.

JAN EGELAND: Well, one-third of our staff, 500 nearly of our 1,400, 1,500 aid workers, are female. And they are highly professional, highly committed, working very hard. They are very often the ...

Jan Egeland: Absolutely heartbreaking. I was first time in Afghanistan during the previous Taliban regime, where we tried also at that time to get girls' education going, and we couldn't.

JAN EGELAND: Well, we've had the famous knock on the door now in many of the provinces where we work. KELEMEN: Taliban fighters came to their offices, he explains, to say we know who you are and ...

Jan Egeland, who is the secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, is the first NGO chief to have visited Afghanistan to talk to the Taliban since the ban came into effect more than two ...

The Taliban's "internal debates and extreme decrees" are paralyzing humanitarian work in Afghanistan, the head of a major aid agency told The Associated Press on Sunday, after he arrive.

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban’s “internal debates and extreme decrees” are paralyzing humanitarian work in Afghanistan, the head of a major aid agency told The … ...

An aid agency chief has told The Associated Press that the Taliban's “internal debates and extreme decrees” are paralyzing humanitarian work in Afghanistan.