Girls driven to low-paid carpet weaving after school ban

Mahjooba Nowrouzi

BBC Afghan Service

BBC Three young women wearing black and white headscarves sit cross-legged in front of a loom.BBC

Carpet weaving is one of few professions open to women since the Taliban government took power in 2021

At a workshop in Kabul where carpets are made, hundreds of women and girls work in a cramped space, the…

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