{"id":383837,"date":"2026-10-01T16:00:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T15:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/afghan-woman-speaks-out-five-years-after-taliban-banned-education\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T16:00:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T15:00:34","slug":"afghan-woman-speaks-out-five-years-after-taliban-banned-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/afghan-woman-speaks-out-five-years-after-taliban-banned-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan woman speaks out five years after Taliban banned education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/Tw3OLKPpHRQ\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Afghan woman speaks out five years after Taliban banned education\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tw3OLKPpHRQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>As part of ITV News&#8217; investigation into the continuing crackdown on women in Afghan society, a dozen women and girls have spoken up. <\/p>\n<p>Roya met ITV News at night, in secret, to tell of what they face at great risk. 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The burqa isn\u2019t what she would choose to wear, but does so now to protect her identity. <\/p>\n<p>Five years after the Taliban returned to power, ITV News International Editor Emma Murphy asks the question of what women\u2019s roles are in Afghan society to the country&#8217;s international spokesman, Abdul Qahar Balkhi, to understand what is happening.<\/p>\n<p>#womensrights #afghan #afghanwoman<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lOHmNj<br \/>\n\u2022 Get breaking news and more stories at http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>Follow ITV News on TikTok https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itvnews?lang=en<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/itvnews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of ITV News&#8217; investigation into the continuing crackdown on women in Afghan society, a dozen women and girls have spoken up. Roya met ITV News at night, in secret, to tell of what they face at great risk. She believes the world has forgotten the women of Afghanistan. The burqa isn\u2019t what she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":383838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128812],"tags":[],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-383837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-itv-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Afghan woman speaks out five years after Taliban banned education | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Afghan woman speaks out five years after Taliban banned education for free, here on News ISC. 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