Ilkka Uimonen: Faces of Afghanistan
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Ilkka Uimonen: Faces of Afghanistan

Clandestine School
Kabul, 1998

Wearing Afghan clothes, I was secreted by some friends into a home that doubled as a women’s school. The Taliban bar women from getting a formal education and employment outside the health field, strictly control their movements outside their homes, and force them to wear the burka, a robe that reaches from head to toe.