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Afghan women demand the right to go to school and work

In a moment last August, Afghanistan's women saw two decades of progress vanish as the Taliban took back over the country.
Storai Ahmadi, Afghanistan program coordinator for Women for Women International, explains how economic activities and travel restrictions have eliminated women's professional lives since the fall of Kabul and weighs in on how numerous women's rights advocates were forced to flee.

The group's arch-conservative interpretation of Islam pushed women out of the workplace, and cast most young women and girls out of school. But as Jane Ferguson and videographer Eric O'Connor report, some women in Afghanistan are not taking this lying down and many others are committed to helping Afghanistan's women and girls from abroad.