Today, July 27, is the last day of the deadline set by the Taliban for women hairdressers to close their shops. In a video that is circulating on social networks, it shows that female hairdressers are gathering their tools with tears and crying and saying that the results of our many years of hard work have disappeared and after that we have to stay home.
Hairdressers in Afghanistan were considered suitable jobs for women. These Hairdressing businesses had gradually turned from amateur to professional, and in addition to earning their owners money, they also provided training for others.
From the first day, it was clear that the Taliban’s behaviour had not changed; it was just the propaganda of the Westerners who were trying to get themselves out of the mire of Afghanistan. This group shed the blood of the people of the country for twenty years with the slogan of war against infidels. They massacred the Hazaras and committed crimes against humanity in all regions of Afghanistan.
In addition to the fact that the situation of anti-Taliban groups inside was bad, Taliban lobbies were also active at the international level. Zalmay Khalilzad and Pakistan were the active actors of the Taliban terrorist group who were able to convince the international community that the Taliban had changed and should be trusted.
With the Taliban coming to power and issuing numerous orders from the leader of this group, it showed that there has been no change in their behaviour. In the first order of the leader of this group, they closed all the schools for girls, and after that, they also closed the gates of the universities. The story did not end here. The leader of this group, by sharpening his wolf-like teeth on the rights of Afghanistan women, banned women from working in public and private offices.
According to the available statistics, around 60,000 women working in hairdressing salons are unemployed based on the non-human rights order of the Taliban leader. If we consider the average family of these women hairdressers to be five people, about 300,000 people have been affected, and their source of income has been lost. In addition, those who imported cosmetic products have also suffered.
Yesterday, July 26, Human Rights Watch published a letter asking the UN Security Council to put the human rights situation of Afghanistan women at the top of their evaluations. However, it seems that the international community is also forced to take the side of the Taliban and pay ransom to this group due to the famine that has afflicted the people of Afghanistan and the human rights situation. Two years have passed since the Taliban came to power, but no serious measures have been taken by the international community.
