For some girls in Afghanistan, there has historically been a path to live before puberty as a boy. Now, the tradition of “bacha posh” may be threatened. | Analysis by Lisa Selin Davis
The last time the Taliban ruled Afghanistan, after the Soviet--Afghan War of the 1980s, life for women and girls was ghastly.
As a report from the Congressional Research Service put it,"Taliban prohibited women from working, attending school after age 8, and appearing in public without a male blood relative and without wearing a burqa. Women accused of breaking these or other restrictions suffered severe corporal or capital punishment, often publicly.
We encouraged these women to get an education, get a profession, choose your own path, become more like us, build your own country. And those are the ones who are now in extreme danger. These are the journalists, academics, teachers, university students, artists, politicians.
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