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World Service,13 Jan 2003,28 mins

Afghan Women Return to Education

Everywoman

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As Afghan women begin to enrol at university once more since the fall of Kabul, the programme looks at the woman forced into exile when her clandestine classes for girls were discovered by the Taliban in Afghanistan. Also on the programme: Why Japanese women are fighting to retain their surname after marriage. Plus, a look at the women joining ranks of the Bangladesh army.

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