2023-07-04 10:21:09
The Taliban government announced on Tuesday that it has ordered the closure of beauty salons within a month in Afghanistan, a new measure aimed at keeping women ever further away from public life. Since their return to power in August 2021, the Taliban has excluded women from most secondary schools, universities and government offices, and has largely banned them from working with the UN and international NGOs.
Beauty salons had proliferated in Kabul and in major Afghan cities during the 20 years of occupation by American and NATO forces, before the return to power of the Taliban. They were considered safe places for women to meet in the absence of men, and had also enabled many women to set up their own businesses. In a report presented to the UN Human Rights Council last week, Richard Bennett, special rapporteur for Afghanistan, called the situation of women and girls in the country “one of the worst in the world”.
“Serious, systematic and institutionalized discrimination once morest women and girls is at the heart of Taliban ideology and power,” Bennett said. Hibatullah Akhundzada claimed in late June that women living in the country had been rescued from “oppression” by the Taliban government and that their status as “free and dignified human beings” had been restored.
The supreme leader, whose public appearances are very rare and who manages the country by decree from Kandahar (South), cradle of the Taliban, explained that everything was done to guarantee women “a comfortable and prosperous life in accordance with Sharia” (Islamic law).
The Taliban government announced Tuesday that it has ordered the closure of beauty salons within a month in Afghanistan, a new measure aimed at keeping women ever further away from public life. Since their return to power in August 2021, the Taliban have excluded women from most secondary schools, universities…
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