Kabul, Afghanistan — AFP Afghanistan’s Taliban government marked on August 15 the second anniversary of their takeover of the country with celebrations and a public holiday, issuing a defiant statement commemorating their surge back to power. Flags of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan — the name given to the country by its n...
JERUSALEM, Palestine – A group of Jewish settlers raided a Palestinian school in the West Bank. According to Palestine’s official WAFA news agency, Jewish settlers raided the Ra’s et-Tin school in the eastern Ramallah area where Bedouin communities live. They broke the windows of the school. In October 2020, Israel decided to...
TORONTO (AA) – The UN said Tuesday that the International Criminal Court should recognize gender discrimination in Afghanistan as a crime against humanity. “The legal opinion we have received shows that the denial of education to Afghan girls and employment to Afghan women is gender discrimination, which should count as a crime aga...
RAMALLAH (AA) – A group of Jewish settlers raided a Palestinian school in the West Bank, according to local media on Sunday. Jewish settlers raided the Ra’s et-Tin school in the eastern Ramallah area where the Bedouin communities live, according to Palestine’s official WAFA news agency. They broke the windows of the school, it adde...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The former deputy prime minister of Turkey said the closure of Turkish minority schools in Western Thrace by Greece is a violation of historical agreements that guarantee minorities’ rights to education in their own language. “It clearly shows that Greece does not respect human rights and minority rights,” Hak...
WASHINGTON – The American Anthropological Association (AAA) has joined a Palestinian call to boycott Israeli academic institutions that support the apartheid regime. The largest academic association in the U.S., with 12,000 members, had put the motion to a vote from June 15 to July 14. 71% of members supported the boycott call. The motio...
ANKARA, Türkiye – Prominent Afghan citizens have launched a campaign to force the Taliban to allow the reintroduction of girls’ education in Afghanistan. One of the members of this campaign, Fazl Hadi Wazeen, told Muslim Network News that this campaign has been launched both inside and outside Afghanistan. Wazeen, an academic and p...
NEW YORK (AA) – Advocacy groups have filed a lawsuit against Harvard University for allegedly favoring white students. The lawsuit alleges that the prestigious college gives preferential treatment to applicants with wealthy donors and alumni connections. The civil rights advocates filed the lawsuit on behalf of several advocacy groups, s...
Taez, Yemen (AFP): Every day at dawn, 14-year-old Salim Mohammad leaves home to fetch water, trekking through his city in southwestern Yemen to join the queues at the nearest public dispenser. He and his three siblings walk at least a mile and wait, sometimes for hours, hoping to fill their jerry cans and make it […]
NEW DELHI (AA): A school in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh faced administrative action and was de-recognized for allegedly forcing non-Muslim girls to wear hijabs or headscarves. State Home Minister Narottam Mishra, while talking to journalists in the capital Bhopal on Wednesday, warned that action will continue against the school ...
