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Teenage Afghan girls say they feel "mentally dead" as the Taliban's ban on their education prevents them from returning to school once again

www.bbc.com Afghanistan: Teen girls despair as Taliban school ban continues

The new term has begun, but secondary school remains closed to girls for another academic year.

Afghanistan: Teen girls despair as Taliban school ban continues

More than 900 days have now passed since girls over 12 were first banned from education. According to Unicef, the ban has now impacted some 1.4m Afghan girls.

The future for many of Afghanistan's girls is "bleak", warns Samira Hamidi, Amnesty International's regional campaigner - pointing to the fact young girls are continuing to be married off when they reach puberty, and are further endangered by the Taliban's rollback of laws designed to protect women in abusive marriages.

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