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The Global Jigsaw: The Taliban鈥檚 war on women

The Taliban's return to power in Afghanistan has led to the erasure of women from public life.

The Taliban's return to power in Afghanistan has led to the erasure of women from public life. There鈥檚 a UN-led campaign to recognise it as 鈥済ender apartheid鈥�, but the international community is divided and lacking leverage. Three years after the group took the capital Kabul, our experts explain what life is like for half of the population and why women have become a proxy for the nation鈥檚 image of itself.

Producer: Kriszta Satori, Elchin Suleymanov
Presenter: Krassi Twigg

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