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Afghan Women Erased From Public Life in Five Years of Taliban Rule

Decrees restricting the rights of women and girls to study, work, travel and act independently now threaten to damage Afghanistan permanently, experts say.

© Tomas Munita for The New York Times

A market in Kabul, Afghanistan, last year. Most women say they have to get a male relative’s permission to leave the house.
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