UNITED NATIONS (AA) – The UN and several international humanitarian agencies have asked the Taliban to expand exceptions for women to work in humanitarian, health and education sectors. UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths traveled to Kabul last week with a delegation including Janti Soeripto (president of Save the Children US), Sofia ...
UNITED NATIONS (AA) – UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed held talks with the Taliban about women’s rights, a spokesperson said on Friday. UN’s top female diplomat Amina Mohammed, Executive Director of UN Women, Sima Bahous, and Assistant Secretary-General of the Department of Political, Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace...
SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – Hurairah Yasir’s discussions on faith and doubt with her mates at a boarding school in the northern Baramulla district of Kashmir impacted her to an extent that she decided to write a book. She was in class 9, aged 14. “I couldn’t resist myself. I wanted to say it […]
LONDON (AA) – Stockholm University has apologized to a Turkish student whose internship application was rejected by a Swedish professor over the country’s pending NATO membership bid. Fatma Zehra S., a third-year undergraduate studying psychology at Istanbul’s Ibn Haldun University, was accepted by the EU’s Erasmus+ program for a summer 2023 i...
ANKARA (AA) – The Afghan Taliban have welcomed the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) recent declaration on Afghanistan but asked the international community not to “interfere in Afghanistan’s internal affairs.” In a statement, Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesman of the group which seized power in the war-torn countr...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Hundreds of Bangladeshi people on Monday protested the death of an expatriate Bangladeshi student in police shooting in the US on Wednesday. Protesters formed a human chain in front of the Bangladesh Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Dhaka condemning the death of Sayed Arif Faisal, 20, in the US. Faisal was [&hellip...
KAMPALA, Uganda (AA) – Twenty-six people were arrested when security agencies in Uganda raided a Muslim-founded school on Monday night, police said on Tuesday. The arrests were made at the Imam Ridha Islamic School, belonging to the former Supreme Mufti Sheikh Zubair Kayongo, which is located at the Buloba village in the outskirts of the [&hel...
Kabul, Afghanistan (AFP): An Afghan academic who caused a storm by quitting and tearing up his certificates on live television to protest the ban on women in universities has vowed to fight the order “even if it costs my life”. Ismail Mashal, a lecturer in journalism for more than a decade at three universities in […]
Kabul, Afghanistan (AFP): An 18-year-old Afghan student endured taunts and insults at the weekend as she staged a solo protest against the ban on women attending university. “For the first time in my life, I felt so proud, strong and powerful because I was standing against them and demanding a right that God has given […]
NEW YORK (AA) – The UN Security Council has urged the Taliban in Afghanistan to reverse policies and practices that further exclude women from public life. The 15-member Council on Tuesday expressed deep concern in a statement that the Taliban have suspended access to universities for women and girls. It denounced the suspension of schoo...
