The Taliban on July 5 banned magnificence salons and ordered that each one magnificence and hair salons be shut down. The militant group governing the nation, on Friday, gave a weird cause for the choice. They stated the salons had been banned as a result of they supplied providers forbidden by Islam and brought on financial hardships for grooms’ households throughout wedding ceremony festivities, the Taliban have stated. As per customized, the groom’s household is required to pay for the pre-wedding salon go to by the bride and her shut feminine kin
Taliban’s determination to impose a ban on magnificence salons drew considerations from worldwide officers anxious in regards to the affect on feminine entrepreneurs.
The ruling is the most recent curb on the rights and freedoms of Afghan girls and ladies, following edicts barring them from training, public areas and most types of employment. Ladies have even been banned from working for the United Nations.
Sadiq Akif Mahjer, the spokesman for the Taliban-run Advantage and Vice Ministry, on Thursday, stated, providers supplied in salons, like eyebrow shaping, using different folks’s hair to enhance a lady’s pure hair and the appliance of make-up, which might intrude with the ablutions required earlier than providing prayers, went in opposition to Islam.
Based on a report by Khaama Press, over 60,000 girls are on the verge of shedding their jobs after the Taliban ordered the shuttering of magnificence salons. A number of girls make-up artists are protesting the ban. They’ve requested for the order to be rescinded.
“Greater than 12,000 girls’s magnificence salons are energetic throughout Afghanistan and all of them are girls,” Tolo Information quoted Nadia Sultani, a make-up artist. “Ladies’s magnificence salons are the ladies’s space. The top of each magnificence salon is a lady. When a lady is working in a girls’s magnificence salon, that is because of hardship and poverty,” Raha Hassani, one other make-up artist said.
Because the Taliban took energy in August 2021, they’ve handed about 51 edicts in opposition to girls, together with proscribing their presence on social media.
A report back to the UN’s Human Rights Council final week by Richard Bennett, the particular rapporteur on the scenario of human rights in Afghanistan, stated the plight of girls and ladies within the nation “was among the many worst on this planet.”
— With PTI inputs