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World
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International
5/1/2023 3:17:30 PM
Afghanistan's Taliban authorities will be absent from UN-led talks that open Monday on how to handle the crisis-stricken country's rulers and press them to ease a ban on women working and girls going to school.
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Opinion
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5/1/2023 12:27:51 PM
Gender equality and fair treatment of women and girls is a moral imperative, but global data analytics, evidence and experience clearly demonstrate that including women also fosters economic growth and stability, especially in times of fiscal challenges.
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World
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International
4/27/2023 11:36:01 AM
Some 90 percent of young women and teenage girls in the world's poorest countries have no access to the internet, a United Nations report published Wednesday said.
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World
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Region
4/17/2023 4:15:29 PM
Afghan authorities are closing education centers and institutes supported by non-governmental groups in the south until further notice, officials said Monday. The centers are mostly for girls, who are banned from going to school beyond sixth grade.
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World
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International
3/25/2023 4:39:31 PM
The Taliban government is trying to take charge of more Afghan embassies abroad, a spokesman said Saturday, amid their continued international isolation because of restrictions on women and girls.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
3/19/2023 6:17:10 PM
A criminal court in Egypt’s Assiut governorate sentenced a young male to seven years in prison on Sunday for blackmailing 12 girls, demanding illicit relationships with them and threatening them through social media with defamation after fabricating sexually explicit photos.
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World
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Region
3/6/2023 5:07:18 PM
Iran's supreme leader said Monday that if a series of suspected poisonings at girls' schools are proven to be deliberate the culprits should be sentenced to death for committing an “unforgivable crime.”
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World
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Region
3/1/2023 7:52:31 PM
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.
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Life & Style
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Health
2/13/2023 9:55:40 PM
US health authorities sounded the alarm Monday about a mental health crisis among American high school students, particularly teenage girls suffering from sadness, violence and trauma.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
12/23/2022 6:45:03 PM
Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmed El-Tayyeb has called for the Taliban to reconsider their decision to ban Afghan women from accessing university education, saying the decision contradicts Sharia (Islamic law).
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World
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International
12/22/2022 6:26:38 PM
The Taliban's treatment of women and girls in Afghanistan may amount to "a crime against humanity", G7 foreign ministers said Thursday, demanding the ban on women attending university be reversed.
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World
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International
12/20/2022 10:28:15 PM
Afghanistan's Taliban rulers on Tuesday banned university education for females nationwide, as the hardline Islamists continue to crush women's right to education and freedom.
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Life & Style
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Health
12/12/2022 4:11:47 PM
Egypt's Ministry of Health and Population, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and the Embassy of the Netherlands in Cairo published a training manual on Menstrual Health Management for Adolescent Girls on Sunday.
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World
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Africa
10/22/2022 7:18:11 PM
Dozens of women and girls have been raped and hundreds of civilians killed during fighting in Ethiopia's Tigray region, according to an official document seen by The Associated Press.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
10/2/2022 9:30:24 PM
Egypt’s Public Prosecution has launched a probe into the death of student Malak Mohamed and the injury of 15 other girls when a concrete stair fence collapsed at a preparatory school in Giza governorate on Sunday, the prosecution said in a statement.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
9/12/2022 7:05:09 PM
A Cairo Economic Misdemeanors Court of Appeal accepted on Monday the appeal presented by sexual offender Ahmed Bassam Zaki against a three-years-prison sentence for sexually assaulting and harassing three minor girls in using social media acquitting him from those charges.
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World
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International
9/10/2022 2:50:48 PM
Taliban authorities Saturday shut down girls schools above the sixth grade in eastern Afghanistan's Paktia province, according to witnesses and social media posts. The schools had briefly opened after a recommendation by tribal elders and school principals.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Sports
8/23/2022 8:56:51 PM
For the second year in a row, Egypt’s Wadi Degla football team are going to the finals of the 2022 African Women’s Champions League, reports Inas Mazhar
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World
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International
8/14/2022 1:33:06 PM
The EU on Sunday said it was "particularly concerned" about worsening conditions for women and girls in Afghanistan after the country's ruling Taliban violently broke up a women's rally.
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World
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International
6/15/2022 6:26:53 PM
The UN rights chief on Wednesday slammed the Taliban's "institutionalised systematic oppression" of women and girls in Afghanistan, warning they face a "critical" situation.
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