A Save the Children midwife provides Zarmina, 25, who is five months pregnant, with a pre-natal check-up in Jawzjan province in northern Afghanistan, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2022. A senior U.N. official in Afghanistan met the deputy prime minister of the Taliban-led government to discuss a ban on women working for non-governmental groups. Save the Children is one of the major aid agencies that suspended its operations in Afghanistan after the ban was announced. (Save the Children via AP)