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...
Kabul, Afghanistan (AFP): Marwa was just a few months away from becoming the first woman in her Afghan family to go to university — instead, she will watch achingly as her brother goes without her. Women have been “temporarily” banned from attending university in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. The Taliban cite the lack of pr...
Kabul, Afghanistan (AFP): A small group of Afghan women staged a defiant protest in Kabul on Thursday against a Taliban order banning them from universities, an activist said, adding that some were arrested. The Taliban’s minister for higher education on Tuesday ordered all public and private universities to bar women from attending. ...
Kabul, Afghanistan (AFP): Hundreds of young women were stopped by armed guards on Wednesday from entering Afghan university campuses, a day after the nation’s Taliban rulers banned them from higher education. Despite promising a softer rule when they seized power last year, the Taliban have ratcheted up restrictions on women’s live...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – The visiting high-profile delegation from the Parliamentary Union of the OIC Member States (PUIC) have called on the Bangladeshi authorities to adopt a mechanism for educating the Rohingya children in the crowded refugee camps in the country’s southern border district of Cox’s Bazar. The 11-member team from the Committ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US sharply rebuked the Taliban on Tuesday for expanding restrictions on women’s education, most recently banning women from university study indefinitely. “The United States condemns in the strongest terms the Taliban’s indefensible decision to ban women from universities, to keep secondary schools...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – The poor air quality in the Iranian capital Tehran and adjacent cities forced the authorities to order closure of primary and secondary schools on Monday and Tuesday. The school week in Iran is from Saturday to Wednesday, with Thursday and Friday being weekends. Similar measures have also been taken for primary […]
