Afghanistan beauty salon ban a blow to women’s financial freedom

23 July 2023 - 00:00 By Reuters

For the past eight years, Marzia Reyazee has supported her family with earnings from her female-only beauty salon in Afghanistan, a business she spent more than $18,000 (now about R323,000) setting up...

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