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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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Egypt
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Courts & Law
8/17/2023 9:18:20 PM
The Court of Cassation upheld a sentence of 8 years for Ahmed Bassam Zaki, a former university student, over charges related to sexually assaulting three girls.
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World
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Region
7/30/2023 10:50:42 AM
The Ain Al-Hilweh camp in Sidon, Lebanon, has now returned to a state of calm after a period of security tension resulting in injuries, including two girls, on the night between Saturday and Sunday.
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World
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International
7/24/2023 1:14:48 PM
Photo apps digitally undressing women, sexualized text-to-image prompts creating "AI girls" and manipulated images fueling "sextortion" rackets -- a boom in deepfake porn is outpacing US and European efforts to regulate the technology.
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World
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Region
7/20/2023 8:47:04 PM
United Nations experts on Thursday slammed a Libyan government policy effectively blocking women and girls from travelling abroad without a male guardian as discriminatory and a violation of their rights.
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World
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International
7/17/2023 5:17:17 PM
Taliban authorities have further increased restrictions on women and girls in Afghanistan in recent months, including in education and employment, the U.N. said in a report on the human rights situation issued Monday.
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World
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International
6/6/2023 7:52:47 PM
The European Union called on Afghan authorities Tuesday to investigate the poisoning of primary schoolgirls in the country's north after 77 students were hospitalized.
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World
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International
6/4/2023 10:10:42 PM
Nearly 80 girls were poisoned and hospitalized in two separate attacks at their primary schools in northern Afghanistan, a local education official said Sunday.
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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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