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In Photos: Afghan Women’s Lives Reclaimed By Taliban Control

Since the Taliban's takeover in August 2021, Afghan women and girls have faced severe regression in their rights and freedoms, reverting to the pre-2002 era. The advances made over the past two decades have been swiftly undone, with women banned from education, employment, and public spaces. Restricted to their homes and subjected to a stringent dress code, they live under constant threat and surveillance

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Women and girls wait in a corridor in th꧃e district hospital of Shindand, a district among those most affected by the two decades of war,🍌 located in the province of Herat, Western Afghanistan, May 30, 2023.

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Woman in a burqa walking past a wall with different sorts of landmines and ot๊her weapons drawn on it in Kab🍒ul.

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Demonstrators in support of women of Afghanistan hold a banner during the march of the International Women's Day on March 08, 2023 in Madrid, Spa💛in.

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Women, many of them widows, queue to receive food aid from Ca꧑re International, in Kabul. Afghanistan.

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A woman steps onto a bus leading her to a camp set up for returnees who have been deported or coerced into leaving Pakistan, at the Torkham border crossing in Nangarhar province, Eastern Afghanistan, on November 9, 2023. In 2021, over 600,000 Afghanis fled to Pakistan after the Taliban takeover and in November 2023, 𝄹Pakistan coerced many of these Afghan refugees to return, saying the deportation drive was long overdue.

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Protesters demonstrate outside the Foreign Ministry against the Taliban two years since the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan on August 15, 2023 in Berlin, 🦹Germany.

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Protest in Piazza Esquilino organised by Afghan community and Nawroz Association to protest against the violation of wome🔥n's rights and against the genocide of the Hazara p𓆏eople in Afghanistan.

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Three women in colorful burkas with covered faces walk down a street, their crisp modern slacks and Western style high heel shoes⛦ peeking🌠 out from underneath, in Kabul, Afghanistan, in November 1973.

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In a school fo🐓r refugee children decades 𓆏before the Taliban rule.

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Female workers join⛎ the men on a m🐼arch in Kabul in July 1979.

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Female students at 🙈the Po🧸lytechnical University in Kabul before the Taliban days.