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‘It kept our spirits alive’: Taliban’s internet blackout leaves girls in despair
Many Afghan women and girls can no longer communicate or study online after the internet is cut off in 12 prov…
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‘Send your daughters or you get no aid’: the Taliban are making religious schools girls’ only option
Food handouts and employment are increasingly tied to Afghan families’ agreement to strict Islamic educationWh…
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Airstrikes, banditry, drones and a ban on girls’ education: four teachers on educating students amid conflict
Educators working in extremely challenging conditions in Lebanon, Niger, Ukraine and Afghanistan explain what …
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‘I didn’t give much thought to the universe’: India’s first astronaut in 40 years inspires next generation of stargazers
The International Space Station has been flying over the country this week and excited children tracking Shubh…
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Taliban minister ‘forced to flee Afghanistan’ after speech in support of girls’ education
Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, Taliban’s deputy foreign minister, left for UAE after criticising ban on secondary s…
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The Taliban made me marry my boss: how one word led to a forced marriage
Afghanistan’s ‘morality police’ arrested Samira at work in Kabul – and then made the 19-year-old marry her emp…
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‘Education is survival’: parents of Rohingya refugee children fight for their right to go to school in India
Official attitudes are hardening towards the minority group amid an anti-Muslim crackdown, say activistsFor Ro…
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UK should restore diplomatic presence to help Afghan women, says aid chief
Hugh Bayley says NGOs would also benefit as he releases report on impact of UK programme in AfghanistanThe UK …
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‘Nothing compensates for the stolen years’: the Afghan women rebuilding shattered dreams in Iran
More than 1,000 days after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, women and girls are reluctantly seeking ed…
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‘Nobody is coming to help us’: Afghan teenage girls on life without school
Barred from school for 1,000 days, girls in Afghanistan face forced marriage, violence and isolation with no e…
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Tall tales but no dessert: the storyteller of Karachi and his ice-cream cart library
In a country where 77% of 10-year-olds are illiterate, a reading scheme in Pakistan is reaching thousands of c…
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Afghan girls detained and lashed by Taliban for violating hijab rules
Girls as young as 16 arrested in shops, classes and markets in Kabul by the Taliban, who labelled them ‘infide…
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Taliban causing ‘irreversible damage’ to whole education system in Afghanistan
Human Rights Watch warns bar on women means unqualified men now teach boys, fewer subjects are taught and beat…
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Women in Afghanistan are fighting an unequal war. We need your support | Zahra Joya
The Taliban have barred us from the workplace, cut our access to healthcare and closed schools to us. Must we …
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Student’s sexual assault and murder shows women’s safety in India ‘not a priority’
Despite reforms, campaigners say Mumbai killing proves lack of progress in protecting students since 2012 ‘Nir…