Taliban have arrested a girl in Ghor province, Afghanistan. Her “crime”? Noria was forced to disguise herself as a boy just to survive.
After her father died, she became the sole provider for her family, working in a restaurant for three years.
This is the reality for women under Taliban rule: in a country where women are banned from work, education, sports, and public life and where poverty deepens by the day Noria is a symbol of millions of girls who are the only breadwinners for their families, and then punished for simply struggling to survive.