Five years after the Taliban outlawed education for Afghan girls over 12, a new wave of restrictions keeps tightening their access to learning. In Kabul, Leila Molana‑Allen and Eric O’Connor followed a clandestine underground school where women secretly teach and organize resistance. The interviewees, risking arrest and violence, reveal how they are quietly defying the regime’s bans and fighting for their right to study. Their story illustrates the ongoing struggle for female education in a country still under Taliban rule.
It's been nearly five years since the Taliban banned education for girls older than 12 in Afghanistan. Every day seems to bring a new law limiting them, but Afghan women are pushing back. Special correspondent Leila Molana-Allen and videographer Eric O'Connor visited a secret underground school in Kabul and sat down with the women risking their lives to protest the oppressive rules.
