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Life under the Taliban: Afghan women facing hardship six months on

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In this special edition, we focus on the plight of women in Afghanistan six months after the Taliban retook the country. For those women and girls left behind, many have found their lives shrunk to the four walls of their homes, either due to losing their jobs or being unable to continue their education. This as a number of women's rights activists have gone missing in recent weeks as the Taliban continue to seek international recognition.

Annette Young talks to Shaharzad Akbar, former chairperson for the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, who has been living in exile since last August, about how women are driving the resistance movement.

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