Women's education in Afghanistan: Sandarwa rural school
Afghan girls attend school in the village of Sandarwa in eastern Afghanistan Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesA teacher gives a class to women in Sandarwa. Many teachers have been executed in remote villages by the Taliban during the latest resurgencePhotograph: Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesWomen's education has been severely compromised in Afghanistan as a resurgent Taliban has practised a policy of intimidationPhotograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Afghan boys also attend the school in the village of Sandarwa in eastern AfghanistanPhotograph: Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesThe United Nations Children's Fund, Unicef, says 80% of girls aged between seven and 12 in Kandahar province do not attend school, compared with 45% of boys. The comparable figures in Kabul are 33% and 14%Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesTeachers in Kandahar province's handful of girls' schools say they regularly receive death threatsPhotograph: Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesChildren taking a lesson at schoolPhotograph: Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesWomen have been subjected to burning and killing for attending schoolPhotograph: Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesBoys practise writing in their village schoolPhotograph: Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesUS Army vehichles patrol through the village in the village of Sandarwa in eastern Afghanistan. The Obama administration is still considering its options on troop deployments to Afghanistan, which has recently witnessed an upsurge of violence against coalition forcesPhotograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
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