WorldThe 'complex' world of a Taliban home: Wife embraces Taliban 'brothers', asserts women's right to freedom

Award-winning photojournalist and author Elise Blanchard draws on rare access to a Taliban household to portray the profound contradictions shaping Afghan women’s lives. In drought-stricken Badghis province, she traces child marriage to material pressures worsened by climate change and examines gendered violence through patriarchy, poverty, environmental crisis and political instability.

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