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Rights activist asks Taliban to reopen girls' schools
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 13 (ANI): Women's rights activist Zarifa Ghafari called on the Taliban to reopen all girls' schools and asked the world leaders to pay attention to the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan and "not differentiate between Afghans and Ukrainians".
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UNHCR expresses concern over Taliban decree banning girls from schools
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 13 (ANI): United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees (UNHCR) has expressed concern over the closure of secondary schools for Afghan girls and their safety.
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UN special envoy blames Taliban's ban on girls' education for negative glo
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 12 (ANI): Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General, Mette Knudsen, during a briefing of the Diplomatic Corps, highlighted that the Taliban's decision to ban girls from attending secondary schools has negatively impacted the attitude of the global c
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Priyanka Chopra gives a glimpse of her 'Soul Sunday' with her girls
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Los Angeles [US], April 11 (ANI): Actor Priyanka Chopra loves spending Sundays outdoors. Her recent Instagram post is proof of this fact.
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Western envoys link aid to Afghanistan with allowing girls access to educa
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 11 (ANI): Hardening stand against anti-women measures of the Taliban, the envoys and representatives of the European Union, US, and the European countries in a joint statement have said that the international aid to Kabul will depend on Afghanistan's ability to
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Human Rights Watch calls for inquiry into fate of female protestors detain
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 10 (ANI): Expressing concern over the detention of the women protesting against the Taliban's ban on girls' education in Afghanistan, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called for an inquiry into the fate of these protestors, reported local media.
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UN envoy calls upon Taliban to allow girls' education
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 10 (ANI): The UN's envoy has called for urgent steps from the Taliban regime to ensure that all Aghan girls are able to attend schools in Afghanistan.
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Bihar: Three teens dead after consuming poison in Aurangabad, three others
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Aurangabad (Bihar) [India], April 9 (ANI): Three teenage girls died after six friends consumed poison together on Friday in Bihar's Aurangabad.
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Afghanistan: Clerics call on Taliban to reopen girls' schools, says no leg
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 8 (ANI): Religious scholars once again called on the Taliban to reopen all girls' schools in Afghanistan's capital Kabul and said there was no legal justification for banning girls above sixth grade from going to school.
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Assam: Three get death sentence for raping, murdering tribal girls
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Guwahati (Assam) [India], April 8 (ANI): A special court in Kokrajhar on Friday awarded death sentence to three persons accused of raping and murdering two tribal minor girls last year.
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Activists raise concern over closure of Afghan girls' schools above grade
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 8 (ANI): A month-old decision of captured Afghanistan by Taliban to stop the education of girls from grade 6 onwards, is now attracting condemnation within as well as outside the country.
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European Parliament strongly condemns education ban for girls
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], April 8 (ANI): The Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have expressed deep concern over the Taliban's recent decision to indefinitely extend the ban on allowing girls in seventh grade and above to attend school.
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