GENEVA (AA) – The denial of girls’ education in Afghanistan is “manifestly discriminatory,” said a UN rights official on Tuesday, urging the interim Taliban government to open schools to girls at all levels. “The denial of a secondary school education and of access to university is manifestly discriminatory, profo...
Tehran, Iran (AFP): Iran’s Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday said those behind the poisoning of schoolgirls in recent months should face “severe punishment”, according to his website. Several hundred cases of gas poisoning have been reported in more than 52 schools across Iran since the end of November, accordin...
Kabul, Afghanistan — AFP Male students trickled back to their classes Monday after Afghan universities reopened following a winter break, but women remain barred by Taliban authorities. The university ban is one of several restrictions imposed on women since the Taliban stormed back to power in August 2021, and has sparked global outrage...
Tehran, Iran (AFP): Iranian authorities arrested four people Thursday in connection with an assault on a woman outside a girls’ school targeted in a wave of poisoning attacks, a news agency said. Hundreds of cases of respiratory distress have been reported in the past three months among schoolgirls in what one government official said co...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) — Hundreds of schoolgirls have been hospitalized in different cities across Iran since November last year in what has been described as a wave of a mysterious illness. Though the exact number of students affected by the poisoning is yet unknown, a senior lawmaker on Wednesday put the figure tentatively at “nearly [&hell...
Tehran, Iran (AFP): Iran’s president stepped in after more than 100 students were hospitalised Wednesday, the latest in a spate of poisonings at girls’ schools that has gripped the country. The president’s website said Ebrahim Raisi had assigned Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi to provide “continuous information on the re...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – The poisoning of schoolgirls in central Iran’s Qom city, which has snowballed into a grave public health issue in recent months, got a new twist on Sunday with an official saying it was aimed at “shutting girls’ education”. Deputy Health Minister Younes Panahi told a press conference in the northeastern ci...
ANKARA (AA) – Students will return to schools in four provinces of Türkiye’s quake-hit regions from March 1, the national education minister has said. “As of March 1, we resume education in city centers and all districts of Adana, Kilis, Diyarbakir, and Sanliurfa,” Mahmut Ozer told reporters in the Malatya province, one of the regions [&hellip...
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...
