It also says Afghan and international staff have been subject to physical abuse and harassment. Access blocked It has accused the Taleban of blocking humanitarian access to the central Hazarajet region, where 60,000 people have been forced from their homes by fighting. One suggestion put forward by the Taleban deputy foreign minister to resolve the bakery issue was to hire foreign, rather than Afghan, women. The UN says that is not a workable solution. Apart from the cost, it says, there are simply not enough foreign women who speak Persian and Pashtu.
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