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The level of female employment is very low by global standards, but the ILO said that they were estimated to have decreased by 16 percent in the third quarter of 2021, and they could fall between 21 percent and 28 percent in mid 2022.
“The situation in Afghanistan is very important and direct support for stabilization and recovery is needed,” said Ramin Behzad, the senior coordinator of the International Labor Organization (ILO) for Afghanistan. “While the priority is to meet direct humanitarian needs, lasting and inclusive recovery will depend on people and people who have access to decent work, livelihoods, and basic services.”
Hundreds of thousands of work losses have been seen in several main sectors that have been “destroyed” since takeover, the ILO said.
This includes agriculture and civil service, where workers have been released or left unpaid. In construction, 538,000 this sector workers – where 99 percent are men – have suffered too, because the main infrastructure project has stopped.
Taliban takeover has also caused “hundreds of thousands” Afghan security forces members lost their jobs, said the ILO, noting that teachers and health workers were very affected by the lack of cash in the economy, in the midst of falling international donor support.
When the crisis continued to be revealed, the ILO explained that the Taliban arrested Kabul on August 15, threatening the increase in hard construction achieved over the past two decades.
The domestic market has been “interrupted widely”, said the UN agency, while productive economic activities have fallen, which in turn encourages production costs.
At the same time, because Afghanistan reported assets of $ 9.5 billion have been frozen, “Foreign assistance, trade and investment … has been very affected”, the ILO continued, pointing to the lack of cash and restrictions on bank withdrawal, causing misery for businesses, which causes misery, workers and households.
