Despite international pressure, Taliban authorities have banned teenage girls from going to school in most Afghan provinces, denying an entire generation access to education. Some girls have chosen to defy the ban, taking huge risks to pursue their hopes and dreams. FRANCE 24’s Catherine Norris Trent and Tarek Kai visited a secret school in Kabul where determined activists brave the Taliban’s rules to give young women the education they aspire to.
Nearly a year has gone by since the Taliban said they were "temporarily" suspending secondary schools for girls aged above 12, upending the lives of millions of young women. Afghanistan's Islamist rulers later backtracked on a promise to reopen schools in the spring.
