Afghan Women Lose More Rights as Taliban Orders Beauty and Hair Salons to Close

 

[CBS NEWS] The Taliban ordered the closure of all hair and beauty salons on July 2, giving businesses a month before invalidating their "licenses and contracts".

Akif Muhajir, a spokesman for the ministry, "explained in a statement posted online that the edict was issued as beauty salons were putting too much economic pressure on grooms-to-be, as their families are traditionally expected to cover the cost of wedding beauty treatments for women from both families."

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"The Vice and Virtue ministry spokesman said salons also used fake hair and shaped women's eyebrows, which he said was "prohibited in Islam," though both are common in many other majority Islamic nations. Muhajir also suggested that an over use of makeup would prevent women's skin from absorbing water during Islamic prayer rituals."

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"Beauty salons were one of the few remaining sources of income for Afghan women supporting themselves and their families. The Taliban has issued a series of formal decrees since it retook power over the country in August 2021 severely restricting women's rights to work, go to school and even leave their homes unaccompanied by men."

Please read the article for heartbreaking reactions from women about this, including a woman who owns three beauty salons and employs 50 women.

Per BBC News: "Shutting beauty salons was part of a wide range of measure imposed by the Taliban when they were last in power between 1996 and 2001. But they reopened in the years after the 2001 US-led invasion of Afghanistan."