Since seizing power in August 2021, the Taliban government has banned girls and women from high schools and universities, banned them from parks, funfairs and gyms, and ordered them to cover up in public.
Women are mostly barred from working at the UN or NGOs, and thousands have been fired from government jobs or paid to stay at home.
Mohammad Sadek Akif Muhajir, spokesperson of the Ministry of Virtue Promotion and Prevention of Vice, could not say why the new order was given.
“Once they are closed, we will share the reason with the media,” he told an international news agency.
He said businesses were given time to wind down their affairs so they could use their stock without incurring losses.
A copy of the order seen by an international news agency said it was “based on verbal instructions from the Supreme Leader”.
Beauty parlors have sprung up across Kabul and other Afghan cities in the 20 years since US-led forces occupied the country.
They were seen as a safe place to gather and socialize away from men and provided women with business opportunities.
The plight of women and girls in Afghanistan is “among the worst in the world,” Special Rapporteur on Afghanistan Richard Bennett said in a report to the UN Human Rights Council last week.
“Severe, systemic and institutional discrimination against women and girls is at the heart of Taliban ideology and governance, giving rise to concerns that they may be responsible for gender apartheid,” Bennett said.
UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Nada al-Nashif added: “Over the past 22 months, women and girls have been restricted in every aspect of their lives.”
“They are discriminated against in every way.”
Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada said last month that women in Afghanistan were escaping “traditional oppression” and regaining their status as “free and dignified people” with the adoption of Islamic rule.
Akhundzada, who rarely appears in public and rules by decree from the Taliban’s birthplace of Kandahar, said in a statement to mark the Eid al-Azhar holiday that steps had been taken to provide women with a “comfortable and prosperous life in accordance with Islamic Sharia”.
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