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ABC (NEW YORK) — Author Zarifa Adiba discusses her journey from Afghanistan to international music fame in her new book “Playing for Freedom: The Journey of a Young Afghan Girl.” Adiba said she was just like other Afghan girls, with ambition, dreams and courage. However, she says what made her luckier was her passion for […]
Getty Images/David Sacks (AFGHANISTAN) — More than 600 Afghan women and girls refuse to bow down to the Taliban’s ban on education. Run by 25-year-old Parasto, a non-registered NGO called SRAK allows students to take their studies underground in a secret network of schools. The brutal crackdown on girls’ education in Afghanistan began shortly after […]
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