5 Years After Taliban Takeover, Women & Girls in Afghanistan Have Disappeared from Public Life

Five years after the Taliban regained power following the U.S. withdrawal, women and girls in Afghanistan face severe restrictions. They are banned from schools, gyms, and medical practices, while books by female authors are removed from libraries. Child marriage rates have risen, and wives are legally subordinate to husbands. Activist Negina Yari describes this as the world's darkest situation, while former Deputy Speaker Fawzia Koofi denounces the current state of affairs as gender apartheid.