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