Beauty salons in Afghanistan have been given one month to close as the country’s Taliban leaders extend their repressive rule over women, who are already largely confined to their homes with ...

Quickly and silently, women in Afghanistan are losing their identities. Last week the Taliban confirmed that all beauty salons in the country must close up shop in one month. According to the ...

Since returning to power nearly two years ago, the Taliban have resumed pushing women and girls out of public life. The Taliban now say they're shutting down women's beauty salons.

Salons are told their services are ‘forbidden by Islam’ and need to shut down; activists say the consequences will be devastating for women ...

Valeria Marquez was killed in what the Jalisco State Attorney’s Office has officially called a femicide.

The Taliban use stun guns, fire hoses and gunfire to break up Afghan women protesting beauty salon ban “We are here for justice,” said one protester, who identified herself as Farzana.

Valeria Marquez was killed in what the Jalisco State Attorney’s Office has officially called a femicide.

The salons allowed a brief opportunity to step outside the confines of Afghan public life - but now they have been ordered to close in another example of the Taliban strangling the rights of women ...