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Return to Afghanistan

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What will happen to the progress that’s been made in education and women’s rights in Afghanistan? It...

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More than three million girls now go to school in Afghanistan. None did when the Taliban ruled. Image by Mellissa Fung. Afghanistan, 2013.

Mellissa Fung returns to Kabul to complete a story begun five years earlier, interrupted by her kidnapping. The video examines the present state of education for Afghan girls and the changes in Afghanistan in the five years since Fung's rescue.

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