PBS NewsHour

How educated Afghan women offer resilience amid turmoil

Clip: 07/04/2018 | 7m 7s  | Video has closed captioning.

Drought is drying up farms across Afghanistan, threatening the only way of life the majority has ever known. It's in the fields where a new war is being waged between two forces the people can't control: climate change and terrorism. But, as special correspondent Beth Murphy of The GroundTruth Project reports, some are seeing greater reason to let their daughters be educated.

Aired: 07/04/18

Rating: NR

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