![Under Taliban Education Ban, Afghan Women Languish in a Purgatory of Ignorance and Politics](https://www.jurist.org/commentary/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/04/afghanistan_1680874952.jpg)
The suffering that Afghan women have endured is matched by only a few other groups in recent world history. – Afghan-American novelist Khalid Hosseini Afghanistan stands alone as the only country in the world where women are systematically denied the fundamental right to education. For over a year now, the Taliban’s ban on female education [...]