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Arts & Culture
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Stage & Street
10/26/2024 12:40:58 PM
Rain might be falling outside on the promenade in the English seaside resort of Blackpool but the inside of the Tower Ballroom -- billed as "the UK's most spectacular" -- is bathed in light, sequins, pompoms and music.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
8/24/2024 6:11:00 PM
Young girls screamed and elbowed each other in a crush of bodies in southern Gaza, trying desperately to reach the front of the food line. Men doled out rice and chicken as fast as they could, platefuls of the nourishment falling to the ground in the tumult.
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World
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International
8/20/2024 8:07:29 PM
King Charles III offered his "deepest" sympathies Tuesday as he met survivors of a devastating UK knife attack that killed three young girls and sparked nationwide anti-immigration riots.
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World
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War in Sudan
7/29/2024 10:12:25 AM
Sudan's warring parties have committed widespread sexual violence against women and girls aged between nine and 60, and prevented survivors from accessing healthcare in the capital, Human Rights Watch said on Monday.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
7/27/2024 6:10:42 PM
Israeli airstrikes hit a school in central Gaza on Saturday, killing at least 30, Palestinian health officials say.
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Egypt
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Society
6/6/2024 12:22:04 PM
The US embassy in Cairo announced the launch of a five-year initiative to address violence against women and girls in collaboration with the Egyptian government, the embassy said in a statement on Wednesday.
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Egypt
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Society
3/26/2024 5:16:12 PM
The US embassy in Cairo announced on Tuesday the launch of the Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) programme in partnership with the Egyptian Ministry of Education and Technical Education at the Maadi STEM School for Girls.
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Books
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Reviews
3/16/2024 2:47:22 PM
Moussem Ketabet Al-Banat – Waportraihat Okhra (A Season for Girls’ Writing – and Other Portraits) offers an insight into the early chapters of some of today’s prominent Egyptian and other Arab women writers.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
3/16/2024 1:08:12 PM
Permanent Representative of Egypt to the UN in Geneva Ahmed Ihab Gamaleldin said the catastrophic situation faced by women and girls in the Gaza Strip is a stain on the conscience of humanity and requires immediate intervention from international institutions.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Culture
3/12/2024 8:11:31 PM
Nahed Nasr enjoyed seeing Youssry Nasrallah’s documentary classic for the second time
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World
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Africa
3/8/2024 5:31:58 PM
Over 230 million women and girls have undergone female genital mutilation, most of whom live in Africa, according to a report issued on Friday by the United Nations children's agency (UNICEF).
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Opinion
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3/7/2024 3:45:45 PM
Ghalia, a young Egyptian woman, recently said to me that, “Every woman has the power to change the world for the better, and it’s up to us to help bring it to life.”
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
2/19/2024 8:06:28 PM
UN rights experts called Monday for an independent probe into alleged Israeli abuses against Palestinian women and girls, including killings, rapes and sexual assault.
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Life & Style
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City Lights
2/14/2024 2:24:32 PM
A grant assistance of $60,000 has been extended by the Japan Embassy in Egypt to the Future Girls Association for Society Development to provide safe access to water to reduce health risks associated with water pollution and improve the living environment in El-Ayat area, Giza.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
12/9/2023 11:47:00 PM
Susan, a 20-year-old mother from Gaza, was reunited with her premature twin baby girls in a hospital in Egypt on Thursday - almost two months after she last saw them at Al-Shifa hospital before the Israeli army bombed it out of service.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
12/5/2023 9:34:41 PM
Dawwie, which encourages girls to talk about societal challenges, has gone to North Sinai, reports Reem Leila
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World
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Africa
9/19/2023 4:45:15 PM
U.N.-backed human rights experts say war crimes continue in Ethiopia despite a peace accord signed nearly a year ago to end a conflict that engulfed the country’s northern Tigray region. The violence has left at least 10,000 people affected by rape and other sexual violence — mostly women and girls, they found.
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World
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International
9/7/2023 8:44:21 PM
From the fight against poverty to education access, from political representation to economic opportunity, the world is "failing women and girls," the United Nations warned in a report on gender equality released Thursday.
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World
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International
8/28/2023 4:17:06 PM
A school on Indonesia's main island has partially shaved the heads of more than a dozen girls, its headmaster said Monday, after they were accused of wearing their Islamic hijab headscarves incorrectly.
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Egypt
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Society
8/25/2023 1:58:06 PM
Egypt successfully launched the first stage of the national initiative ‘Dawwie’ (Rumble!) to empower Egyptian girls and promote equality and acceptance of others among children.
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