The Taliban closes beauty salons and hairdressers – news Urix – Foreign news and documentaries

Another place where women can meet in public is the Afghan women’s place. The Taliban have now decided that it will be strictly illegal for women to cut their hair or fix their eyebrows outside the home. It is the ministry that is supposed to promote virtue and prevent immorality in the country, which has chosen to close the over a thousand beauty salons and hairdressers. ILLEGAL: In a few weeks, all beauty salons will be closed in Afghanistan. Photo: ATIF ARYAN / AFP Afghan salon owners lose their workplace, but also a social meeting place. The salon owners have been given less than a month to close, and will not receive any form of financial benefit in the process. This is the last law in a long series of prohibitions that the Taliban have introduced after they came to power in 2021. All the prohibitions have led to women’s freedom being curtailed, and directly or indirectly meant that women have to stay at home. The laws that discriminate against women have had fatal consequences for women in Afghanistan. Suicide and poor mental health The Afghan women’s rights activist Fawzia Koofi reports that at least one or two women take their own lives every day due to poor mental health. Koofi also reports that girls as young as 9 are sold by their families, because there is no hope for them, in addition to the financial pressure they are under. In a survey conducted by the UN, 50 percent of those asked answered that they know at least one woman who has struggled with anxiety or depression since the Taliban came to power. And absolutely all the women the UN spoke to were seriously worried about their mental health. From 27 July all salons for women must close. Photo: JORGE SILVA / Reuters A male salon owner that news has spoken to now offers to travel to the home of women who want to get a haircut. The new law does not affect salons for men. His wife, who owns a beauty salon for women, has traveled to Iran as a result of not being allowed to run her salon. It was her only income. They do not want to be named. There have not yet been any laws prohibiting the offering of beauty treatments or hairdressing services at home, so it is still a possibility. The Taliban has introduced yet another law to ensure that women stay at home. Photo: ATIF ARYAN / AFP Hear also:



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