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Verify at Sky.com slash mobile claims. A couple of weeks ago across Afghanistan a group of women put on heavy robes, left their homes accompanied by male chaperones.

Not all of them told their families where they were going.

Across the Afghan border for a long and dangerous journey.

Some didn't make it. They were stopped at the airport, pulled off of planes, but many did, arriving in Tirana, the capital

of Albania, for a meeting shrouded in secrecy.

In Afghanistan, the Taliban's campaign against women is accelerating.

They've been banned from going to school, from working, just this summer, prevented even from speaking in public, even too loudly in their own homes.

And now more than a hundred women were making their way to Albania for the first meeting of Afghan women activists since the Taliban took over more than three years ago. An opportunity for this silenced population to talk to each other to argue to strategize to start

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