A year in ignorance: Afghanistan's girls have lost hope

A year on from the fall of Kabul, the lives of women under the Taliban have shrunk to exclude opportunities for education, work and leisure

Sakina, 16, hasn't been allowed to return to school since the Taliban take-over last August.

“We no longer have any hope from the Taliban,” says Sakina, 16. “If they wanted us to study, they would not have deprived us from studying for a year and allowed us to go to school.”  

Sakina had been more hopeful about returning to school when I spoke with her last December outside Sayed Ul-Shuhada school in West Kabul.