DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – The visiting high-profile delegation from the Parliamentary Union of the OIC Member States (PUIC) have called on the Bangladeshi authorities to adopt a mechanism for educating the Rohingya children in the crowded refugee camps in the country’s southern border district of Cox’s Bazar. The 11-member team from the Committ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US sharply rebuked the Taliban on Tuesday for expanding restrictions on women’s education, most recently banning women from university study indefinitely. “The United States condemns in the strongest terms the Taliban’s indefensible decision to ban women from universities, to keep secondary schools...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – The poor air quality in the Iranian capital Tehran and adjacent cities forced the authorities to order closure of primary and secondary schools on Monday and Tuesday. The school week in Iran is from Saturday to Wednesday, with Thursday and Friday being weekends. Similar measures have also been taken for primary […]
Kabul, Afghanistan (AFP): Afghan education authorities staged secondary-school leaving exams for girls across much of the country Wednesday despite most of them being barred from attending classes for over a year. The education ministry would provide no details of the exams — or how many pupils were sitting them — and refused to al...
ANKARA (AA) – The European Union Delegation to the Palestinians has said it was “appalled” after Israeli forces destroyed a primary school in the Masafer Yatta in the occupied West Bank. “Appalled by news that ISF demolished the donor funded Sfai school in Masafer Yatta in occupied Palestinian territory, one day after a...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AA) – A modest library has been established in the Afghanistan capital to honor Hazara victims killed in a suicide bomb attack on an education center. The attack occurred Sept. 30 at the Kaaj Education Center in the Dasht-e Barchi — a predominantly Hazara neighborhood. At least 53 people were killed, including 4...
Chandan Mori, Pakistan (AFP): Pakistani three-year-old Afshan’s trip to school is a high-wire balancing act as she teeters across a metal girder spanning a trench of putrid floodwater, eyes fixed ahead. After record monsoon rain flooded her classroom in the southeastern town of Chandan Mori, this is the route Afshan and her siblings now ...
ANKARA (AA) – Around 40 million Azerbaijanis living abroad do not have access to education in their native language, President Ilham Aliyev said at the Turkic states’ summit. Speaking at the meeting of the Organization of Turkic States leaders in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Aliyev said: “The Turkic world does not consist only of i...
Kabul, Afghanistan (AFP): A month after losing her eye in a deadly suicide bomb attack on her academy, a young Hazara woman has finished among the top candidates in Afghanistan’s tough university entrance exams. Results issued over the weekend showed Fatima Amiri scored 313 points out of a possible 360 in the “Kankor”, a high...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AA) – Despite many obstacles, self-sacrificing Afghan women educators have taken it upon themselves to teach girls who are not allowed to go to school, child workers who contribute to their families’ livelihoods, and illiterate women. The Taliban, who came to power in Afghanistan in August 2021, have imposed restricti...