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The vast majority of Afghanistan's population professes to be followers of Islam. Over 1400 years ago, Islam demanded that men and women be equal before God, and gave them various rights such the right to inheritance, the right to vote, the right to work, and even choose their own partners in marriage.

ROBAT, Afghanistan - In this remote Afghan village, the distance between the school and the compound of its most powerful resident is 100 yards, and thousands of years.