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World
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International
3/24/2022 11:26:24 AM
China's foreign minister made a surprise stop in Kabul on Thursday to meet Afghanistan's Taliban rulers, even as the international community fumes over the hardline movement's broken promise a day earlier to open schools to girls beyond Grade 6.
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World
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International
3/23/2022 12:31:35 PM
Atiya Azimi was up all night packing and repacking her bag, feverish at returning to school for the first time since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan.
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World
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Region
3/17/2022 9:30:37 PM
The UN Security Council on Thursday approved a robust mandate for its political mission in Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover last August. The new mandate authorizes the mission to promote gender equality, empowerment of women and girls, human rights of all Afghans and an inclusive and representative government.
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Egypt
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Society
3/8/2022 11:53:19 PM
The United Nations Population Fund in Egypt (UNFPA Egypt) and the National Council For Women (NCW) thanked on Tuesday Egypt’s First Lady Entissar El-Sisi for sponsoring two initiatives empowering girls.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
2/22/2022 8:47:46 PM
A Cairo criminal court sentenced actor and acting instructor Shady Khalaf to three years in prison for attempting to rape, sexually harassing and molesting seven girls during a training session.
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Sports
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Africa
2/21/2022 5:42:21 PM
FIFA President Gianni Infantino attended a stunning final day of the African School Champions Cup in Kinshasa as Morocco becoming the inaugural winners of the girls’ tournament following victory over South Africa in the final, whilst hosts DR Congo were presented with the boys’ trophy.
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Sports
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Omni sports
2/9/2022 11:48:27 AM
They said he should play soccer. They said figure skating was for girls. They said winter sports made no sense in temperate Guadalajara.
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World
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International
2/8/2022 9:49:01 AM
When the students were barred last month from entering their classrooms and told not to wear hijab, a headscarf used by Muslim women, they began camping outside the all-girls high school.
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Opinion
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2/6/2022 6:51:32 PM
Last week, the Child Helpline received a call about a midwife who was going to perform Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) on five girls in a village in Assiut. Luckily, they moved quickly to save the girls and stop the crime before it took place.
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Life & Style
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Health
2/6/2022 3:02:39 PM
On the 6th of February each year, the world re-sheds light on the quest to put an end to the practice of Female Genital Mutilation around the globe.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
2/5/2022 4:06:56 PM
Egypt’s prosecutor-general referred renowned businessman and media tycoon Mohamed El-Amin to criminal court for human trafficking over sexually abusing and threatening seven underage girls.
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World
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International
1/15/2022 10:37:22 PM
Afghanistan's new Taliban rulers say they hope to be able to open all schools for girls across the country after late March, their spokesman told The Associated Press on Saturday, offering the first timeline for addressing a key demand of the international community.
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World
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International
12/13/2021 4:13:53 PM
Afghanistan's new Taliban rulers are committed in principle to education and jobs for girls and women, a marked departure from their previous time in power, and seek the world's 'mercy and compassion'' to help millions of Afghans in desperate need, a top Taliban leader said in a rare interview.
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World
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Africa
12/7/2021 12:47:32 PM
Islamist militants waging a brutal insurgency in northern Mozambique have abducted more than 600 women and children over the past three years, Human Rights Watch said in report Tuesday.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
11/9/2021 8:00:00 PM
A Cairo court sentenced on Tuesday a doctor to life for sexually assaulting six minor girls in his private residence and clinic.
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Life & Style
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City Lights
10/23/2021 10:06:00 PM
A new initiative has been launched in Egypt to empower teenage girls, especially in the country's marginalised communities by supporting their rights, bridging the gender gap, and building their social, health and economic assets.
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World
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International
10/16/2021 4:59:02 PM
The Taliban will announce a framework that allows girls to attend school in Afghanistan "soon," a senior United Nations official said, after four weeks in which Afghan boys have been allowed a secondary education but girls have not.
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Opinion
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10/11/2021 2:28:00 PM
On the International Day of the Girl Child, let us pledge to end harmful practices, ensure quality education and eliminate gender inequalities. Let us pledge to invest in girls.
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World
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International
9/21/2021 1:23:41 PM
The Taliban were notorious for their brutal, oppressive rule from 1996 to 2001 when women were largely barred from work and school, including being banned from leaving their homes
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World
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International
9/5/2021 3:38:08 PM
Vucic said Serbia had received a request to accommodate 150 women and girls from a football club, and that his government would allow it
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