Afghan teen dreams of being the 'voice for the voiceless,' but fears for future of her homeland


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In a war-torn country hungry for heroes, the tale of a teenage girl who allegedly shot Taliban militants to avenge the murder of her parents has proved potent. In mid-July, reports emerged.


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The Taliban, which returned to power in August 2021, has banned girls above the age of 13 in Afghanistan from attending secondary schools or universities - t.


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Girls as young as 16 arrested in shops, classes and markets in Kabul by the Taliban, who labelled them 'infidels' for wearing 'bad hijab' Girls as young as 16 have been arrested across the.


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Two 16-year-old Afghan refugee girls will not be able to sit their GCSEs because the Home Office is moving them out of London weeks before their exams without guaranteed school places, their.


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News | Education Afghanistan school year starts without millions of teenage girls Since the Taliban's takeover in 2021, only girls aged 12 and under have been allowed to go to school. Taliban.


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Afghanistan girls' tears over chaotic Taliban schools U-turn. Early this morning, at her home on a hilltop in the west of Kabul, 15-year-old Marzia packed her bag for school, for the first time.


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In Afghan culture, once a female marries, she moves in with her in-laws. Aziz Gul left her family's home in Gozar Gah, a suburb of Herat, and moved to her new husband Musa's home in Jawand, a.


Afghan teen dreams of being the 'voice for the voiceless,' but fears for future of her homeland

Habiba and her former classmates Mahtab and Tamana are among hundreds of thousands of teenage girls who have been barred from attending secondary school in most of Afghanistan by the Taliban -.


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"UNICEF estimates that 28 per cent of Afghan women aged 15-49 years were married before the age of 18.. such as putting children to work and marrying girls off at a young age. "As most teenage girls are still not allowed to go back to school, the risk of child marriage is now even higher. Education is often the best protection against.


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Sharbat Gula, who became an instant icon when she peered out from the June 1985 cover of National Geographic magazine as a 12-year-old-refugee, is now the owner of a 3,000-square-foot residence.


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Where learning is against the law: A secret school for Afghan girls. By Sudarsan Raghavan. November 9, 2022 at 2:00 a.m. EST. Masouda is shown teaching young women in a clandestine school in Kabul.


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Afghanistan: The teenage girls returning to school under the Taliban Female education - or the lack of it - has been seen as one of the biggest obstacles to the Taliban being officially.


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Sky's Sally Lockwood met teenage girls who have fled Afghanistan since the Taliban's takeover Qatar has evacuated hundreds of students in recent days - mostly young women and girls. All of the ones I've met have said they fled to protect their access to education.


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For over a year, the house in a village in the southern province of Helmand has served as a secret school for around 40 teenage girls. Among the students is Zarghuna, who was in the seventh.


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Teenage schoolgirls in Afghanistan continue to be excluded from school more than three months after the Taliban takeover.


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In the meantime, teenage girls in Afghanistan are losing hope and some of the best years of their lives. Last year, I interviewed 16-year-old Atefa who, in trying to explain the helplessness.

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