With many women forced out of work and girls unable to attend school under the Taliban, the library in Kabul hopes to assist them in gaining education.
Afghan women open library amid Taliban rule to help gain educationSpace to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume.Women's rights activists in Afghanistan have opened a library in Kabul to assist them in education.abc.net.
The books were mostly donated by teachers, poets and authors to the Crystal Bayat Foundation, an Afghan women's rights organisation which helped set up the library. Most teenage girls now have no access to classrooms and thousands of women have been pushed out of the workforce due to the growing restrictions and Afghanistan's economic crisis, international development agencies say.
Western governments have stepped up their condemnation of the Taliban's widening elimination of women from public life.
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