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 […]
Kabul, Afghanistan (AFP): Afghan education authorities staged secondary-school leaving exams for girls across much of the country Wednesday despite most of them being barred from attending classes for over a year. The education ministry would provide no details of the exams — or how many pupils were sitting them — and refused to al...
ANKARA (AA) – The European Union Delegation to the Palestinians has said it was “appalled” after Israeli forces destroyed a primary school in the Masafer Yatta in the occupied West Bank. “Appalled by news that ISF demolished the donor funded Sfai school in Masafer Yatta in occupied Palestinian territory, one day after a...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AA) – A modest library has been established in the Afghanistan capital to honor Hazara victims killed in a suicide bomb attack on an education center. The attack occurred Sept. 30 at the Kaaj Education Center in the Dasht-e Barchi — a predominantly Hazara neighborhood. At least 53 people were killed, including 4...
Chandan Mori, Pakistan (AFP): Pakistani three-year-old Afshan’s trip to school is a high-wire balancing act as she teeters across a metal girder spanning a trench of putrid floodwater, eyes fixed ahead. After record monsoon rain flooded her classroom in the southeastern town of Chandan Mori, this is the route Afshan and her siblings now ...
ANKARA (AA) – Around 40 million Azerbaijanis living abroad do not have access to education in their native language, President Ilham Aliyev said at the Turkic states’ summit. Speaking at the meeting of the Organization of Turkic States leaders in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Aliyev said: “The Turkic world does not consist only of i...
