Al Jazeera: One year ago, the Taliban told women they couldn’t study medicine. Now, some are doing it in secret. Lima was just weeks away from graduating from a medical school in Kabul when the Taliban banned higher education for women last December, interrupting her studies and that of thousands of other women. Women already qualified as doctors, nurses and other medical workers are permitted to continue in their jobs, but no new women may enter the field or undertake training. Click here to read more (external link).