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Kabul: Taliban of Afghanistan The deputy ministry confirmed on Tuesday that authorities have ordered the closure of beauty salons across the country within a month, in the latest restriction to keep women out of public life.
Since seizing power in August 2021, the Taliban government has banned girls and women from attending secondary schools and universities, barred them from parks, galleries, and gyms, and ordered them to cover up in public.
Women have also been mostly barred from working for the United Nations or NGOs, and thousands have been laid off from government jobs or paid to stay at home.
Muhammad Sadiq Akif Muhajir, spokesman for the Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, did not mention the reason for issuing the new order.
“As soon as they are closed, we will share the reason with the media,” he told AFP.
He said companies were given time to close their affairs so they could use their shares without incurring losses.
A copy of the order, seen by AFP, said it was “based on verbal instructions from the supreme leader.”
Beauty salons have proliferated across Kabul and other Afghan cities in the 20 years that US-led forces have occupied the country.
They were seen as a safe place to congregate and socialize away from men and to provide employment opportunities for women.
A report to the United Nations Human Rights Council last week by Richard Bennett, the special rapporteur for Afghanistan, said the plight of women and girls in Afghanistan “was among the worst in the world.”
“Severe, systematic and institutionalized discrimination against women and girls is at the core of the Taliban’s ideology and rule, raising concerns that they may be responsible for gender apartheid,” Bennett said.
“Over the past 22 months, every aspect of women and girls’ lives has been constrained,” added UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Nada Al-Nashif.
“They are discriminated against in every way.”
Supreme Commander Hebatullah Akhundzadeh She said last month that women in Afghanistan were being rescued from “traditional oppression” by adopting Islamic rule and restoring their status as “free and dignified human beings”.
Akhundzadeh, who rarely appears in public and rules by decree from the Taliban’s hometown of Kandahar, said in a statement marking Eid al-Adha that steps had been taken to provide women with a “comfortable and prosperous life in accordance with Islamic law.”
Since seizing power in August 2021, the Taliban government has banned girls and women from attending secondary schools and universities, barred them from parks, galleries, and gyms, and ordered them to cover up in public.
Women have also been mostly barred from working for the United Nations or NGOs, and thousands have been laid off from government jobs or paid to stay at home.
Muhammad Sadiq Akif Muhajir, spokesman for the Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, did not mention the reason for issuing the new order.
“As soon as they are closed, we will share the reason with the media,” he told AFP.
He said companies were given time to close their affairs so they could use their shares without incurring losses.
A copy of the order, seen by AFP, said it was “based on verbal instructions from the supreme leader.”
Beauty salons have proliferated across Kabul and other Afghan cities in the 20 years that US-led forces have occupied the country.
They were seen as a safe place to congregate and socialize away from men and to provide employment opportunities for women.
A report to the United Nations Human Rights Council last week by Richard Bennett, the special rapporteur for Afghanistan, said the plight of women and girls in Afghanistan “was among the worst in the world.”
“Severe, systematic and institutionalized discrimination against women and girls is at the core of the Taliban’s ideology and rule, raising concerns that they may be responsible for gender apartheid,” Bennett said.
“Over the past 22 months, every aspect of women and girls’ lives has been constrained,” added UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Nada Al-Nashif.
“They are discriminated against in every way.”
Supreme Commander Hebatullah Akhundzadeh She said last month that women in Afghanistan were being rescued from “traditional oppression” by adopting Islamic rule and restoring their status as “free and dignified human beings”.
Akhundzadeh, who rarely appears in public and rules by decree from the Taliban’s hometown of Kandahar, said in a statement marking Eid al-Adha that steps had been taken to provide women with a “comfortable and prosperous life in accordance with Islamic law.”
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