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

A new book is putting a human face on daily life inside a Taliban household. Photojournalist Elise Blanchard's "In the House of a Taliban," discussed on France 24, draws on rare access to push back against narratives that paint Afghan women only as passive victims. In drought-stricken Badghis province, she traces how child marriage takes hold through a chain of material pressures worsened by climate change, framing gendered violence as a product of patriarchy, poverty, drought, and political instability, France 24 reports.

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