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Zahra Joya dressed as a boy for six years so she could go to school in Afghanistan during Taliban rule. Her young uncle, also a pupil, came up with the idea and Zahra persuaded her mother and grandfather to give it a go. So she exchanged her headscarf for a button-up shirt and woollen blazer and got an education. (Picture credit: Zahra Joya.)

Published on Wednesday, 17th August 2016.

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