The Taliban has banned women from university and girls from primary school, a year after the fundamentalist regime barred girls from attending secondary school. This amounts to a *total ban* on female education in Afghanistan. Female students who showed up for class wept after they were turned away by security forces, forced to reckon with the loss of their imagined futures.⁠ ⁠ Despite initial promises that women and girls would be allowed to exercise their human rights under Sharia law, the Taliban has been on a mission since it came back to power in 2021 to erase women from public life and deny them their basic human rights. Swipe through for everything you need to know ➡️⁠