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J-K: NCC cadets of Baramulla Girls College visited Kaman Post along LoC in
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Baramulla (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], August 18 (ANI): Indian Army organized a visit of NCC Cadets of Baramulla women's degree college to Kaman Post Uri along the Line of Control in Baramulla district of North Kashmir.
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Documentary film 'No Water Land' underlines the burden of childhood of gir
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], August 17 (ANI/PNN): Childhood is meant to enjoy life fully and study in school. But in many parts of India, girls are burdened with collecting water for their household at a very tender age. And in the bargain, they not only lose their innocence but are forced
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ONLY launches a new athleisure brand called ONLY PLAY offering an exciting
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], August 17 (ANI/PRNewswire): Leading European fashion brand for young women - ONLY has forayed into athleisure clothing with the launch of a new category called 'ONLY PLAY'. ONLY has always been at the forefront of bringing exclusive, differentiated and trend-set
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Afghan women need global action to halt Taliban abuse
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New York [US], August 17 (ANI): Afghan women feel abandoned by the world and they are justified in feeling this way, said Heather Barr, Associate Director, Women's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday.
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Women's rights crisis in Afghanistan has few parallels in the world
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 16 (ANI): A year has passed since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan following a rapid drawdown of Western forces that pushed the country into a number of crises which transformed the country fundamentally.
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Lives of Afghan women, girls changed unrecognizably since Taliban returned
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 16 (ANI): A year on from the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, the senior UN official in the country, Resident Coordinator Ramiz Alakbarov, described his fears for girls' lives and called for women to play a full role in reviving the Afghan economy.
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Depriving girls of secondary education costs USD 500mn to Afghan economy:
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 16 (ANI): Keeping girls out of secondary school costs Afghanistan 2.5 per cent of its annual GDP, according to a new analysis by UNICEF.
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Taliban to bring new curriculum in Afghanistan for girls' education
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 13 (ANI): After backlash by the international community over the neglect of girls' education in Afghanistan, the Taliban have created a "directorate of academic curriculum", local media reported on Saturday.
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Future of women and girls in Afghanistan 'bleak', warn UN experts
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 13 (ANI): UN experts on Friday called on the international community yet again to restore the declining human rights situation in Afghanistan and warned that the future of the country is bleak for its women and girls.
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School girls take part in cleaning drive at Mughal gardens in J-K's Srinag
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], August 13 (ANI): School girls participated in a cleaning drive at the famous Mughal gardens namely Nishat and Shalimar Bagh in Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar.
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Afghan women raise concern over Taliban's new rule to limit entry in "ladi
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 12 (ANI): Ever since the Taliban took over control of Afghanistan, large-scale and systematic gender-based discrimination and violence against women and girls has been ongoing in the country, which has apparently witnessed a downfall trend. Local women have expres
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Taliban must achieve trust of their own people first: Former Afghan Presid
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 11 (ANI): Former president of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai has expressed concern over the education ban on girls' education imposed by the Taliban and said such a step could push the country further backwards.
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