Beauty salons in Afghanistan are small businesses that have been outlawed by the Taliban in 1996 and 2023.

Background

In early 2023, there were thousands of beauty salons in Afghanistan.[1] Beauty salons represented one of the few employment opportunities for women in Afghanistan.[2]

History

Beauty salons were forbidden by the Taliban from 1996 to 2001[3] and reopened after September 11, 2001.[4][5]

After the taking power in 2021, the Taliban forbade men from entering beauty salons.[6] Beauty salons were outlawed by Afghanistan's Vice and Virtue Ministry in 2023, who told all such businesses to cease operations before August 2, 2023.[3] In Kabul, on July 19, 2023, about 50 women protested the ban.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Ana Nicolaci da Costa (2023-07-19). "Afghanistan: Women protest against beauty salon closures". BBC News. Retrieved 2023-07-24.
  2. ↑ Bilal, Malika (21 July 2023). "Shutting down Afghanistan's beauty salons". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2023-07-24.
  3. 1 2 Yong, Nicholas (2023-07-04). "Taliban order Afghanistan's hair and beauty salons to shut". BBC News. Retrieved 2023-07-24.
  4. ↑ Mohammad Yunus Yawar and Charlotte Greenfield (2023-07-04). "Taliban administration orders beauty salons in Afghanistan to close". Reuters. Retrieved 2023-07-24.
  5. ↑ "How beauty parlours in Kabul are oases of glamour, positivity in war-torn Afghanistan". Hindustan Times. 2017-05-08. Retrieved 2023-07-24.
  6. ↑ Ramsay, Stuart; van Heerden, Dominique (18 Aug 2022). "Afghanistan: Inside beauty salon as country lives under strict Taliban rule". Sky News. Retrieved 2023-07-24.
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