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UN envoy Markus Potzel calls for Afghan girls' senior secondary education
Updated : 6 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 17 (ANI): UN deputy special envoy for Afghanistan Markus Potzel emphasised the need for Afghan girls' senior secondary education and said that the same rights to education should be provided to everyone.
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Our Africa by Merck Foundation Twelfth Episode focusing on Women Empowerme
Updated : 7 months ago IST
Kampala [Uganda]/ Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 8 (ANI/BusinessWire India): Merck Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Merck KGaA Germany released the Twelfth Episode of their TV program "Our Africa by Merck Foundation" on Saturday, 2nd July 2022 on KTN, Kenya, repeated every Wednesday
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Taliban ask Kabul's provincial education departments to open secondary sch
Updated : 8 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 5 (ANI): Taliban on Sunday instructed Kabul's provincial education departments to open secondary schools for girls, subject to some conditions.
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UK to link Pakistan aid with human rights
Updated : 8 months, 1 week ago IST
London [UK], June 4 (ANI): UK bilateral aid spending in Pakistan has dramatically decreased since 2016, said a British Foreign Office report that linked the dwindling British assistance with human rights issues.
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Realty Buyers lay foundation bricks at M3M Capital, pledge support for gir
Updated : 8 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Gurugram (Haryana) [India], May 24 (ANI/NewsVoir): M3M's grand Bhoomi Poojan on May 22 attracted hundreds of home-buyers who have invested in the M3M Capital project at Sector 113, Gurugram on Dwarka Expressway.
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Taliban leader says women should be provided with their rights based on Af
Updated : 8 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 23 (ANI): Taliban's senior leader Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai came out in support of women's education rights and said that it is the responsibility of the government to provide a safe education to them in the country.
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Afghan women's future appears bleak with Taliban diktats governing their l
Updated : 8 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 21 (ANI): Afghan women are staring at a bleak future due to a number of restrictions imposed by the Taliban governing aspects of their lives within ten months of Afghanistan takeover.
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Experts say Afghan girls banned from schools suffering psychologically
Updated : 9 months, 1 week ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 4 (ANI): Psychologists have said that the Afghan girl students above grade six, banned from going to schools by the Taliban, are undergoing mental stress due to this move, reported local media.
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US special envoy calls on Muslim world to champion Afghan women's rights
Updated : 9 months, 1 week ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 3 (ANI): The US special envoy has said that the "Muslim world must champion the rights of Afghan women and girls", reported local media.
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Dress restrictions tighten for Afghanistan girls' schools, says rights gro
Updated : 9 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 28 (ANI): After seizing powering August the last year, the Taliban instituted a de facto ban on girls' secondary education, even though community pressure resulted in some girls' secondary schools reopening in about nine provinces.
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Hamid Karzai urges Taliban to reopen girls schools
Updated : 9 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 26 (ANI): Afghanistan's former President Hamid Karzai has raised concerns over the closure of schools for girls, above grade 6, by the Taliban regime, stating that the people of Afghanistan want their girls to return to schools.
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US Envoy, Abdullah Abdullah discuss plight of Afghan girls'
Updated : 9 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 23 (ANI): The United States Special Representative for Afghanistan Thomas West raised the issue of reopening of girls' schools in Afghanistan with the head of the former council of peace and national reconciliation of Afghanistan Abdullah Abdullah.
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