Beauty salon ban in Afghanistan a blow to women’s financial freedom
Kabul, AfghanistanReuters For the last eight years, Marzia Reyazee has supported her family with the earnings from her female-only beauty salon in Afghanistan, a business she spent more than $US18,000 setting up. But the 34-year-old mother of two is likely to find herself without her business, and with few other prospects for a livelihood, when […]
Wow!: Boom in US public banks aiming to stay local and play fair
CAREY L BIRON, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports that US interest in public banks has surged amid affordability and racial justice concerns…