Afghan Taleban order women's beauty parlours to shut
Jul 05, 2023
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 5: Afghanistan's Taleban authorities have ordered beauty parlours across the country to shut within a month, the vice ministry confirmed Tuesday, the latest curb to squeeze women out of public life. The order will force the closure of thousands of businesses run by women-often the only source of income for households-and outlaw one of the few remaining opportunities for them to socialise away from home. "I think it would have been good if women did not exist at all in this society," said the manager of a Kabul parlour who asked not to be identified. "I am saying this now: I wish I did not exist. I wish we were not born in Afghanistan, or were not from Afghanistan."
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