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[[Employees of beauty salons in Kabul, Afghanistan staged a protest following a recent Taliban order that will close all women’s beauty salons in less than a month. Thousands of women will lose their jobs if the order is implemented. Waheed Faizi has the story.]]
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Transcript/ScriptBeauty Salons Protest - Faizi
HEADLINE: Women Employees of Beauty Salons in Kabul Protest Taliban’s Ban
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PUBLISHED AT: 7/19/2023 at 8:05 p.m.
BYLINE: Waheed Faizi
DATELINE: Washington
CONTRIBUTOR: Roshan Noorzai
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((INTRO))
[[Employees of beauty salons in Kabul, Afghanistan staged a protest following a recent Taliban order that will close all women’s beauty salons in less than a month. Thousands of women will lose their jobs if the order is implemented. Waheed Faizi has the story.]]
((NARRATOR))
The Taliban security forces used water cannon and fired shots into the air to disperse dozens of women protesting the recent ban on the women’s salons.
These protesters chanted, “Don’t take our jobs,” and “Bread, job, freedom and justice.”
A demonstrator says she joined the protests to demand her rights.
((Woman Protester in Kabul)) ((Female in Dari))
“I was one of the women who participated in the protest today asking for our rights, asking for work, asking for education.”
The Taliban said that the services offered by salons were “forbidden in Islam,”
although women's beauty salons are operating with no restrictions across Muslim-majority countries.
Protesters, many of whom chose not to give their names, say the Taliban’s decision to ban salons could push people further into poverty.
((Woman Protester in Kabul (Female, Dari)))
“Indeed, we want to know where the order is coming from. Why do they take people’s livelihoods from them? Why do they push people into poverty? If parents are jobless, how would they feed their children?”
((NARRATOR))
The beauty salon ban is the latest in a series of restrictions on women in Afghanistan.
The Taliban also prohibit women from accessing secondary education, employment and public spaces.
((Annie Pforzheimer, Senior Associate, Center for Strategic and International Studies)) ((Female, English))
“I think what is happening to women and girls is terrible. It is a violation of human rights. It is a crime against humanity.”
((NARRATOR))
The United Nations has called on the Taliban to withdraw the ban, which the U.N. says "will impact negatively on the economy and contradicts stated support for women entrepreneurship."
((Athena Hashemi, Owner of Henna Beauty Salon)) ((Female, Dari))
“The whole [city of] Kabul is facing a problem. If the beauty salons are closed, these women won’t be able to find jobs elsewhere to have an income."
((NARRATOR))
According to a source at Afghanistan’s Chamber of Commerce and Investment, there are more than 3,000 women’s beauty salons in Kabul and around 12,000 across the country.
((Waheed Faizi, VOA NEWS – Washington))
NewsML Media TopicsArts, Culture, Entertainment and Media
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Location (dateline)
Washington D. C.
Embargo DateJuly 19, 2023 21:01 EDT
Byline
Waheed Faizi, VOA News
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