More than 60,000 women will lose their only source of income with the closure of this Tuesday of beauty salons in Afghanistan, a new prohibition imposed by the Taliban against Afghans that is added to others such as the ban on higher education or work in non-governmental organizations.

It was almost the only right women had left there and now they no longer have it. The repression against them has gone one step further and now deprives them of their way of life, they want that its economy depends entirely on men.

“There are more than 13,000 women in beauty salons and 60,000 workers who will lose their jobs,” Razmina, a member of the Union of Beauty Salons for Women of Afghanistan, told Efe. According to the association’s calculations, throughout Afghanistan there are more than 12,000 beauty salons owned by women registered with the Union and that employ some 50,000 Afghans, to which must be added almost 10,0000 employees who worked without permission until Tuesday and who have also been affected.

With care, Dari, one of those affected, keeps the jars from her beauty salon, towels, hair dryers… It’s one of the little she has left. “I’m living one of the worst and darkest days of my life“, lamented Dari. She is forced to close her business, after years of hard work and heavy investments. “We are human beings, women like those of other countries in the world, but nobody remembers Afghan women,” says another young Afghan woman through tears.

Women have tried to resist in a country where dissent is not even a possibility. In just two years they have been undermining their rights: the islamic emirate prohibits them from walking alonedenies them any higher education and now, they close the doors of one of their last redoubts of freedom.