The plight of girls under the Taliban

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This episode contains descriptions of violence.

In the two years since the United States pulled out of Afghanistan, the Taliban has shut women and girls out of public life.

Christina Goldbaum, a correspondent in the Kabul bureau for The New York Times, trave ...

In March 2022, seven months after the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan, second level education was banned for girls, leaving around 1.1 million of them without access to formal schooling. Then in December that year, all female students were refused access to universities ...  Show more

In this week's episode, we discuss the very sad situation currently happening in Afghanistan. The Taliban recently took control again and it has had a devastating effect on Afghan women.

We discuss two organizations in the episode that are linked below as well. Please ...