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Many swear words in India, as elsewhere, have one thing in common – they target and shame women. Sunil Jaglan wants to empower women and end the culture of profanitiesOn a cold January afternoon, women gather on the veranda of a government-run nursery …
Read MoreLinguists concerned as regional languages dwindle amid push to strengthen uniform national identityTwo years ago, Qi Jiayao visited his mother’s hometown of Shaoxing in eastern China. When he tried to speak to his cousin’s children in the local dialect…
Read MorePrimary school pupils run free in shorts while a secondary school has gone ahead with uniform changes despite protestsIt’s break time at Valayanchirangara primary school and the pupils run freely beneath the mango trees and palms. Girls race against th…
Read MoreNationwide test for teenagers included passage indicating female independence was undermining discipline in the homeAn Indian exam board has withdrawn a passage from a nationwide English exam that appeared to promote the subservience of wives, after an…
Read MoreDaily newspaper is new joy for Kuttiyamma, who began taking lessons from her neighbour a year agoFor almost a century, Kuttiyamma’s daily routine had been much the same. Rising early at home in the village of Thiruvanchoor in Kerala, the 104-year-old w…
Read MoreThe hardline Islamist Taliban movement, which stormed to power earlier this year after ousting the Western-backed government, has allowed all boys and younger girls back to class, but has not let girls attend secondary school Continue reading…
Read MoreA gift of a camera inspired Belmaya Nepali to rise above poverty and abuse to make documentaries• I Am Belmaya reviewBelmaya Nepali’s life changed for ever when, at 14, she was given a camera.The British film-maker Sue Carpenter had come to Pokhara, a …
Read MoreMinisters from Muslim-majority nations to travel to Kabul to discuss ban on girls going to secondary schoolForeign ministers from several Muslim-majority countries are planning to go to Kabul in part to urge the Taliban to recognise that the exclusion …
Read MoreAt Malalay school in Lashkar Gah, female staff struggle into work despite anxiety over their jobs and half their pupils missingThe walls of the Malalay school, in the centre of Lashkar Gah, Helmand, are pockmarked with bullets from the last weeks of bi…
Read MoreSeven years after fleeing army clashes with militants, 100 families eking out an existence on a hillside near the Afghan border are unable to return home“Don’t talk to me about the government. They don’t help.”Ninety-year-old Shah Mast is angry. He has…
Read MoreCaroline Lucas warns five of those studying in Brighton feel desperate about relatives’ safety in AfghanistanChevening scholars from Afghanistan are receiving threatening messages from the Taliban about what they intend to do to harm their relatives ba…
Read MoreGovernment announces re-opening of high schools for boys but makes no mention of girlsThe Taliban have effectively banned girls from secondary education in Afghanistan, by ordering high schools to re-open only for boys.Girls were not mentioned in Frida…
Read MoreGovernment has prioritised rescue of current scholars but estimated 70 alumni are still in countryA group of former Chevening scholars have accused the British government of abandoning them in Afghanistan, where they say their lives are at grave risk f…
Read MoreThe most vulnerable people will bear the cost of sanctions, as services and the economy collapseWatching Afghanistan’s unfolding trauma, I’ve thought a lot about Mumtaz Ahmed, a young teacher I met a few years ago. Her family fled Kabul during Taliban …
Read MoreHundreds of millions of children fell behind around the world as schools closed during the pandemic. We look at four countries as pupils try to resume their education‘Lost generation’: education in quarter of countries at risk of collapse, study warnsC…
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