The ban on women’s work; a greater effort to remove them from public life is underway

Bayan News

Following the ban on women’s hair salons in Afghanistan, the United Nations Women’s Department expressed concern about further exclusion of women from public life in the country. Sima Bahous, Executive Director of the UN Women’s Department, emphasized in a tweet that the future of Afghanistan must include Afghan women and girls.

She specifically reacted to the ban on women’s hair salons in Afghanistan and stated that the closure of these salons is another blow to women’s rights and a greater effort to remove them from public life in Afghanistan.

However, the Kabul interim government has banned all women’s hair salons in Afghanistan based on the oral order of the leader of the Islamic Emirate and has said that their activities should be stopped by the third month of the Islamic calendar.

According to statistics presented, there are only 12,000 active women’s hair salons in Kabul, which provide employment for 60,000 women.