Taliban Ends U.N. Program for Widows
From Times Wire Reports
Saying Islam completely forbids women working, Afghanistan’s hard-line Taliban regime shut down bakeries run by widows, who are among the country’s poorest of the poor. The bakeries were started by the United Nations World Food Program and allowed widows to be paid salaries to make bread that was sold at a subsidized price to other widows. The order left 350 women without jobs, said Peter Goossens, country director for the WFP.
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