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The price women pay

One year on from the Taliban's return to power, we examine the impact on girls and women in Afghanistan

  • A woman wearing a burqa and her children walk in front of their house in Kabul, Afghanistan

    ‘I daren’t go far’: Taliban rules trap Afghan women with no male guardian

    Those without a male relative to act as a mahram are in legal limbo and unable to travel long distances
  • Farzana* photographed at an undisclosed location in Afghanistan

    An Afghan girl’s despair over school ban: ‘We are wilting away at home’

  • Girls participate in class in a secret school in Afghanistan.

    ‘She asked me, will they kill you if they discover you?’: Afghan girls defy education ban at secret schools

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