The previous Soviet republic of Turkmenistan has banned girls from utilizing cosmetics, doing contouring, manicures, dyeing their hair, sporting tight garments and denims, driving and using within the entrance seat of a automotive, “These days Vremya” reported on the subject of radio “Azatlik”.

Ashgabat has banned abortions, and restrictive measures towards girls within the nation have intensified since Serdar Berdimuhamedov succeeded his father because the nation’s president, the publication provides.

Ladies’s rights in Turkmenistan have attracted the eye of human rights and feminist organizations lately. The United Nations Inhabitants Fund printed a report describing the state of affairs of home violence towards girls within the nation. In accordance with the doc, 12 p.c of the surveyed Turkmen girls skilled bodily or sexual violence within the household.

In August, a video was circulated on-line exhibiting a person, indignant over his spouse’s go to to a magnificence salon, beating her in entrance of individuals. He screams and punches the lady, kicks her legs. This goes on for not less than two and a half minutes and ends with the couple leaving the room. In accordance with the Azatlak radio supply, the video was shot in a magnificence salon in Keshi. It isn’t but identified if there may be an investigation into this beating.

In accordance with human rights activists, the issue of home violence in Turkmenistan is exacerbated by restrictions on girls’s rights in society, significantly by the authorities. Not too long ago, the strain on girls within the nation is growing, the state is introducing new bans towards them.

Dozens of flight attendants and repair employees in Turkmenistan misplaced their jobs in April over liposuction and different beauty procedures. Turkmen airways, that are resuming home flights after a suspension, have fired about 20 flight attendants due to botox of their lips. Conductors on the railways are additionally being fired. About 50 conductors have been fired due to hyaluronic acid of their lips, just a few extra due to silicone used for breast augmentation.” Among the evicted have been fired with out the suitable to different jobs, a supply informed Radio Azatlik in Ashgabat. In accordance with him, lots of them have been fired no proper to a different job.

The provision of contour plastic has led to layoffs in different areas of the nation as properly. Particularly, at Turkmenbashi airport in western Turkmenistan, not less than six feminine workers misplaced their jobs for a similar cause. Two flight attendants who labored on home flights from Turkmenabad to Ashgabat have been additionally fired.

In accordance with quite a few eyewitnesses in Ashgabat and different Turkmen cities, throughout actions in public locations and places of work, police detained girls with false eyelashes and nails and took them to police stations. The ladies have been ordered to take away the outcomes of the beauty procedures, in addition to pay a tremendous equal to approx. 140 {dollars}, half of the typical wage in Turkmenistan. Policemen cease girls on the streets and in public transport to verify them for enlarged lips.

On account of the restrictive measures, dozens of magnificence salons throughout the nation have ceased operations, receiving warnings from the police for a ban on providing “unauthorized” procedures and companies to prospects.

Ashgabat has banned push-up bras, in addition to bikini images. In June, in some state establishments of Turkmenistan, workers have been banned from utilizing bras that optically enlarge their breasts. In accordance with one worker, who spoke on situation of anonymity, along with the ban on these bras, girls have been once more reminded of the ban on tight, form-fitting attire. The ban on tight attire, in addition to the requirement to put on Turkmen patterned trousers – balak, in addition to for married girls to cowl their heads with scarves, has been in drive within the nation because the first half of April. On the top of the summer time season on the coast of the Caspian Sea, a ban on movies in bikinis has been launched within the cities of Turkmenbashi and Avaza.

“In Turkmenbashi, girls and ladies who shoot movies for Tiktok in bikinis are warned of administrative accountability, in addition to potential legal prosecution main to at least one to a few years in jail, in line with the legislation prohibiting pornographic content material,” reviews a correspondent of Radio Azatlak.

The authorities of Turkmenistan, the place nearly all of the inhabitants is Muslim, have at all times inspired girls to put on conventional garments, avoiding Western-style outfits, and the Islamic hijab. Till now, nevertheless, this was not so strictly noticed. Conventional Turkmen clothes consists of an embroidered, ankle-length costume with lengthy sleeves, usually fabricated from brightly coloured cloth. The normal coiffure for women is a hat embroidered with colourful threads, and ladies usually tie a shawl on their heads. The brand new ban additionally consists of the sporting of denims and any tight clothes.

In accordance with some authorities officers, girls working within the public sector are ordered to observe this costume code each at their office and wherever in public. Ladies are required to signal a doc through which they undertake to not put on tight garments, to not dye their hair, to not tattoo their eyebrows, to not use botox, synthetic nails and eyelashes. The doc additionally lists quite a few different limitations. The ladies say the doc incorporates the phrase: “If I deliver my group into disrepute by violating these necessities on or off the job, I comply with be faraway from my place.” Those that refused to signal have been fired.

“Each morning, the administration of state establishments checks the clothes and look of the staff. In the event that they discover flaws, they don’t let the ladies into the workplace and ship them dwelling to right the violations.” – says a resident of Ashgabat, describing her personal expertise. As well as, inspectors can come to the workplace at any time for extra inspection.

Turkmen authorities have additionally banned male drivers of personal automobiles from driving girls who aren’t associated to them. Visitors police stops automobiles with passengers and calls for proof that the lady is a relative of the motive force. This is applicable to each personal automobiles and taxis. At the very least that is the apply within the Balkan Velayat (area), there isn’t any knowledge on how widespread the restrictions are in the remainder of the nation. In accordance with a driver, the tremendous for a lady within the entrance seat is $2,000, even when she is a relative of the motive force, if the “offense” is dedicated after 8 p.m.

Within the nation, with uncommon exceptions, girls are prohibited from driving regardless of the absence of written public orders to take action. As a way to take away or forestall Turkmen girls from driving, the authorities use varied tips, corresponding to difficulties in acquiring driver’s licenses or renewing them.

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