Israeli woman in Kerala for ayurveda treatment found 'murdered', her Keralite partner critical after suicide attempt
New Age
Islam News Bureau
01 December 2023
· Ban on girls’ higher education reaches one-year mark
· Afghan Women Highlighted During Intl Campaign Against Gender-Based Violence
· CAIR files suit against Warren County Jail for alleged mistreatment of Muslim woman
· Pak Ends Delimitation Exercise ahead of Feb Polls, Women Get 60 Seats in NA, 10 Seats for Non-Muslims
· Fauzia Viqar honoured as a champion for women’s rights at CAREC Awards
· Hamas hands over two female hostages, others expected after truce extended
· Pregnant Palestinian mother stabbed to death in Israel's Lod
· Lawsuit filed against Warren Co. Regional Jail, local officials, for alleged treatment of Muslim woman
· Education and work ban in Afghanistan drives women and girls to migration
· Begum: Online Education Platform for Girls Deprived of School
Compiled by New Age Islam News Bureau
URL: https://www.newageislam.com/islam-women-feminism/israeli-woman-kerala-suicide-ayurveda/d/131232
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Israeli woman in Kerala for ayurveda treatment found 'murdered', her Keralite partner critical after suicide attempt
01st December 2023
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KOLLAM: In a suspected case of murder, a 36-year-old Israeli woman who was staying in Kottayam for ayurveda treatment and yoga practice for some time, was found murdered on Thursday, allegedly by her Keralite partner.
The deceased Swat Vaa alias Radha was found with her throat slit. Her partner, Kottiyam-native Krishnachandran who tried to end his life is now at the Thiruvananthapuram Medical College in critical condition.
According to the police, the incident took place around 3.30 pm in their rented home in Kottayam. Police said that 74-year-old Krishnachandran is her husband, and was involved in her murder. Later, he tried to end his life with the same knife by stabbing himself. Both of them were staying in a rented house belonging to Krishnachandran’s relatives, Bindu and Ravikumar.
The incident came to light when Bindu saw the woman’s body. She also witnessed Krishnachandran stabbing himself. She soon informed the locals who alerted the Kottayam Police. The police arrived and shifted Krishnachandran to the District Hospital first and later to the Government Medical College Thiruvananthapuram. His condition is stated to be critical. The body of Swat Vaa has been shifted to Government Medical College Parippally, for postmortem examination.
According to police, Krishnachandran, a Keralite Yoga teacher working in Uttarakhand, has been living with Swat Vaa in Kottayam for the past year. The couple had come here for ayurvedic treatment and yoga practice.
Source: newindianexpress.com
https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/2023/dec/01/israeli-woman-inkerala-for-ayurveda-treatment-found-murdered-her-keralite-partner-critical-after-suicide-attempt-2637656.html
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Ban on girls’ higher education reaches one-year mark
Fidel Rahmati
November 30, 2023
Female Students Gather in Front of Kabul
University in Response to Ban on Girls’ Education
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In addition to the ban on girls’ education beyond the sixth grade, it has been a year since women were prohibited from pursuing higher education in universities. These young women had hoped for the chance to receive education and pursue their careers, but unfortunately, their aspirations have been put on hold.
The Ministry of Higher Education of the Taliban administration, last November, issued a written directive to both private and public universities, instructing them to “suspend” the education of girls until further notice.
The ban on education has deprived millions of girls from attending schools and universities despite international condemnation of this prohibition. However, no concrete actions have been taken to provide hope for the reopening of schools and universities for girls.
Medina is a journalism student at Kabul University, and she celebrates completing her education because, as she puts it, if she could continue her studies like boys, she would. She works day and night to secure an independent future and hopes to create her desired future. However, she laments, “My education and future are now just a lingering dream for me.”
She said that she never imagined that outdated ideologies would dominate the fate of thousands of girls. She said, “We didn’t have a good economic situation, and my father worked tirelessly with limited resources to educate his children. I aspired to one day complete my education and have a job to support my family and my father.”
According to this student, in a situation with no job opportunities for girls, not completing her education and lacking the necessary documents have also taken away her limited job prospects.
On the other hand, Bashir Ahmad Mohammadi, a communication and journalism student at Kabul University who has recently graduated from this field, expressed his dismay in an interview with Khaama Press regarding the fact that girls are excluded from this level of education.
He stated, “I am deeply saddened and, at the same time, disappointed that women in our country are being left out of our educational system during this period of intellectual growth and talent development. They are the future builders of our nation.”
Mohammadi emphasized his support for girls’ education in the country, emphasizing that “when an educated woman emerges, a society becomes educated and enlightened.”
It’s worth noting that online education, scholarships, hidden schools within homes, language centres, and visual arts, including painting and drawing, are some avenues through which many deprived girls pursue education.
Hana Ahadi, another student studying law and political science, couldn’t fulfil her aspiration to graduate from this field. She shared with Khaama Press, “I am concerned not only for my most basic rights but also for the efforts and hardships I have endured, for all the dreams and goals I had set, and for all the girls like me who have been deprived of the right to education.”
She described her absence among this year’s graduates as an unfulfilled wish, as she had hoped to complete this course with her efforts before entering university.
This comes as UNESCO’s education, scientific, and cultural organization reported that the number of female students in Afghan universities had reached 103,854 in 2021. However, after the ban on girls’ university attendance, these numbers plummeted to zero in 2023.
Source: khaama.com
https://www.khaama.com/ban-on-girls-higher-education-reaches-one-year-mark/
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Afghan Women Highlighted During Intl Campaign Against Gender-Based Violence
2023-12-01
The United Nations on November 25
launched "16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence,"
intended to bring attention to the need to prevent and eliminate violence
against women and girls.
The campaign comes amid high concerns over violations of human rights in Afghanistan, with international human rights watchdogs stating that the "Taliban" failed to fulfill what they pledged regarding women's rights in Afghanistan.
“The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence is an annual international campaign that kicked off on 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and runs until 10 December, Human Rights Day,” UN Women said in a statement.
According to the UN, the campaign was started by activists at the inauguration of the Women’s Global Leadership Institute in 1991.
The statement said that the campaign is aimed to provide an organizing strategy by individuals and organizations around the world to call for the prevention and elimination of violence against women and girls.
After the Islamic Emirate came to power, girls and women have been systematically deprived of education, work, and the right to visit parks and cinemas as well as other forms of recreation in public areas.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in an earlier statement that Afghanistan was already one of the world’s most difficult countries to be a woman, both personally and professionally, even before the “Taliban’s” take over of the country.
“Even before the Taliban de facto authorities (DfA) took control of Afghanistan in August 2021, it was already one of the world’s most difficult countries in which to be a woman, both personally and professionally,” the UN agency said. “But since the takeover, the hurdles facing women – especially those living in rural areas – have only grown.”
In September, Human Rights Watch said in a report that since taking over the country in August 2021, “the Taliban have imposed laws and policies intended to deny women and girls throughout the country their fundamental rights because of their gender.”
“The Taliban’s cruel and methodical denial of the basic rights of women and girls to remove them from public life has received global attention,” said Elizabeth Evenson, international justice director at Human Rights Watch. “Coordinated support by concerned governments is needed to bring the Taliban leaders responsible to justice.”
The UN Women said that the UNITE Campaign this year focuses on “UNITE! Invest to prevent violence against women and girls."
“The campaign calls on citizens to show how much they care about ending violence against women and girls by sharing the actions they are taking to create a world free from violence towards women,” it said. This year's campaign, the UN Women said, “also calls on governments worldwide to share how they are investing in gender-based violence prevention.”
Source: tolonews.com
https://tolonews.com/afghanistan-186289
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CAIR files suit against Warren County Jail for alleged mistreatment of Muslim woman
Nov. 30, 2023
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) announced Thursday the filing of a lawsuit in partnership with RoulaAllouch of Bricker Graydon against Warren Country Regional Jail “for depriving a Muslim woman of her religious rights by forcing her to remove her hijab, taking a booking photograph without it and allowing the photo to remain publicly available on its website.”
According to the CAIR release, the woman was also “subjected to an unnecessary full-body strip search that was filmed on a security camera and projected on a TV screen for all those present in the jail lobby to see.”
CAIR’s lawsuit states in part that “all incarcerees and their religious beliefs are entitled to basic respect and certainly privacy, particularly Muslim women whose modesty is not just a personal conviction but a religious obligation.”
CAIR Lawsuit against Warren County Jail by WBKO on Scribd
The lawsuit “aims to have Warren County Regional Jail implement a policy change prohibiting it and its officers from taking booking photographs of Muslim women without their hijab, and to order Defendants to destroy the publicly available image of Mrs. Doe from their database and any security footage that captured her without her hijab during her time at their facility,” according to a press release.
Furthermore, “to enjoin Warren County Regional Jail and its officers from engaging in public, unnecessary strip searches of any individual.”
“Every moment that photo remains on Warren County Regional Jail’s website perpetuates the harm and anguish suffered by Mrs. Doe. It is a permanent record and consistent reminder of the violations to Mrs. Doe’s privacy and religious beliefs,” said CAIR Legal Fellow Aya Beydoun. “To make matters worse, we believe the jail still has the recording of her strip search in their records.”
Warren County Jailer Stephen Harmon issued a statement on Thursday regarding the lawsuit.
“Warren County and its named employees are aware that a lawsuit was recently filed on behalf of Jane Doe,” said Harmon. “Warren County admits there was an incident involving Jane Doe during intake at the Warren County Regional Jail; however, Warren County states that the complaint contains exaggerations and inaccuracies as to the events that took place.”
Harmon also said that Warren County and its employees “deny violating Jane Doe’s constitutional rights and state that they acted to safeguard employees and other persons at the jail in a non-discriminatory manner.”
“Warren County and its employees will vigorously defend their actions taken on this matter,” Harmon said in a release.
Source: wbko.com
https://www.wbko.com/2023/11/30/cair-files-suit-against-warren-county-jail-alleged-mistreatment-muslim-woman/
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Pak Ends Delimitation Exercise ahead of Feb Polls, Women Get 60 Seats in NA, 10 Seats for Non-Muslims
DECEMBER 01, 2023
The election commission of Pakistan this week released the final delimitation list of constituencies for national and provincial assemblies making the prospect of the general elections in February 2024 brighter. The notification shows that the National Assembly has 266 general seats, 10 reserved seats for non-Muslims and 60 reserved seats for women, taking the total number of 336 seats.
According to the list, Balochistan has 20 seats in the National Assembly (NA), including 16 general and four reserved seats for women. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has 45 general seats and 10 reserved seats for women while the Sindh province has a total of 75 NA seats and of these, 61 are general and remaining 14 are reserved for women. Punjab, which is the most populous province, has 141 general seats and 32 seats reserved for women.
Islamabad, the federal capital of Pakistan, has no seats reserved for women and has three general seats in the National Assembly.
The ECP has faced criticism from polling experts because it insisted that it has to maintain parity between populations of constituencies within a district, not the province while experts say that the law regarding governing principles of delimitation talks about population of constituencies of an assembly and not a district.
The list showed that the number of National Assembly seats for Karachi South has increased from two to three. The addition of six tribal districts took Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s NA tally from 39 to 45. Bajaur, Mohmand, Khyber, North Waziristan, South Waziristan and Kurram have gained NA seats.
The Pakistan election commission this week also rejected “baseless and misleading” reports about a delay in the upcoming general elections. After the ECP and Pakistan President ArifAlvi declared earlier this month that February 8 will be the day of polling, there were rumours that the ECP received a request to postpone the general elections due to security reasons in Balochistan and the recent wave of terrorism.
“The news in media circles about a delay in the elections are completely baseless and misleading. The ECP strongly rejects them,” the ECP said in a statement.
Pakistan’s political parties have resumed their pre-poll activities ahead of the elections but the country continues to reel from an economic crisis as well as a wave of terror.
Source: news18.com
https://www.news18.com/world/pak-ends-delimitation-exercise-ahead-of-feb-polls-women-get-60-seats-in-na-10-seats-for-non-muslims-8685051.html
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Fauzia Viqar honoured as a champion for women’s rights at CAREC Awards
December 01, 2023
TBILISI, Georgia: Fauzia Viqar, a prominent Pakistani human rights activist with a focus on women’s rights, was honoured at the inaugural CAREC Award for Advancing Gender Equality held in Tbilisi, Georgia. The ceremony, a landmark event brought together remarkable individuals and organisations from ten member countries of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Programme.
Viqar, recognised for her advocacy for women’s rights and empowerment, stood among the distinguished awardees at the 22nd CAREC Ministerial Conference. Her achievements and commitment were acknowledged alongside ten other honourees for their outstanding contributions to promoting gender equality across diverse sectors. While serving as the first chairperson of the Punjab Commission on the Status of Women (PCSW) from 2014 to 2019, Viqar’s spearheaded a gender management information system, published annual reports on gender parity, and launched a helpline enabling women to report incidents of abuse. In March 2023, she was appointed as the Federal Ombudsperson for Protection against Harassment at Workplace in 2023.
The CAREC Awards ceremony not only celebrated Viqar’s outstanding achievements but also highlighted the urgent need to continue championing gender equality. The event emphasized collective efforts to create a more inclusive, equitable, and just society.
Source: thenews.com.pk
https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/1134089-fauzia-viqar-honoured-as-a-champion-for-women-s-rights-at-carec-awards
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Hamas hands over two female hostages, others expected after truce extended
2023-12-01
GAZA/TEL AVIV: Two Israeli women have been handed to the Red Cross in Gaza City, Israel said on Thursday, and further hostages are expected to be released later in the evening, following a last-minute deal struck by Israel and Hamas.
Israel named the women as 21-year-old Mia Schem, who was seized at a dance party along with many of the other hostages abducted into Gaza, and 40-year-old Amit Sosana. Schem also holds French nationality.
The warring sides agreed to extend their ceasefire for a seventh day, while mediators pressed on with talks to extend the truce further to free more hostages and let aid reach Gaza.
The truce has halted bombing and allowed some humanitarian aid into Gaza after much of the coastal territory of 2.3 million people was reduced to wasteland in an Israeli campaign in retaliation for a deadly rampage by Hamas on Oct. 7.
The armed wing of Hamas claimed responsibility for a deadly shooting in Jerusalem, which Israel called further proof of the need to destroy the, although there were no signs of this scuppering the Gaza truce or release of hostages.
Earlier, Israel, which has demanded Hamas release at least 10 hostages per day to hold the ceasefire, said it received a list at the last minute of those who would go free on Thursday, allowing it to call off plans to resume fighting at dawn.
“In light of the mediators’ efforts to continue the process of releasing the hostages and subject to the terms of the framework, the operational pause will continue,” the Israeli military said in a statement, released minutes before the truce was due to expire at 0500 GMT.
Hamas, which freed 16 hostages on Wednesday while Israel released 30 Palestinian prisoners, also said the truce would continue for a seventh day.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in Israel during his third visit to the Middle East since the war began, said the truce was “producing results. It’s important, and we hope it can continue”.
“We have seen over the last week the very positive development of hostages coming home, being reunited with their families. And that should continue today,” he said. “It’s also enabled an increase in humanitarian assistance to go to innocent civilians in Gaza who need it desperately.”
US officials said Blinken also told the Israelis to ensure the safety of Palestinian civilians once the war resumes.
Egypt’s state media body said Egyptian and Qatari mediators were working to negotiate a further extension of the truce for two days.
So far have released 97 hostages during the truce: 70 Israeli women, teenagers and children, each freed in return for three Palestinian women and teenage detainees, plus 27 foreign hostages freed under parallel agreements with their governments.
Source: brecorder.com
https://www.brecorder.com/news/40276113/hamas-hands-over-two-female-hostages-others-expected-after-truce-extended
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Pregnant Palestinian mother stabbed to death in Israel's Lod
30 November, 2023
A pregnant Palestinian citizen of Israel was stabbed to death while she was taking her children to school in the city of Lod (Lydd) in Israel.
Graphic footage surfaced online showing the attack against the victim identified as Ayah Abu Hjaij.
The pregnant woman was stabbed several times by an attacker who later stepped into a getaway car and left her bleeding on the ground in front of her children.
Abu Hjaij was reportedly in her early 20s and was in an advanced stage of pregnancy. She was taken to Assaf Harofeh Hospital in critical condition and she underwent an emergency C-section. However, both she and her unborn child did not survive.
Israeli reports claimed that Abu Hjaij’s father and brother were arrested on suspicion of her murder.
Al Araby TV journalist Ahmad Yassine debunked claims that the attack was perpetuated by an Israeli settler, as claimed by several social media users who alleged other causes of the incident.
"Aya Abu Hujaj from Lod was killed this morning while taking her daughter to school. The motive is criminal, and two suspects, her family members from Bedouin villages in the Naqab (Negev) and Lod, have been arrested," Yassine tweeted on X.
According to the Abraham Initiatives, the recent incident marks the 222nd killing within Israel’s Arab community this year, which has drastically increased since last year’s count of 103 in 2022.
The nonprofit also reported that 188 Palestinians were targeted and killed between January and July 2023, which was 2.3 times more than the same time last year, when there were 47 fatalities.
Meanwhile, a majority of victims were found to be 30 years old or younger and makeup 58 per cent of fatalities- as a predominant cause of incidents of Palestinian victims murdered are by illegal firearms.
The city of Lod, located southeast of Jaffa, consists of 25,000 Palestinian citizens of Israel out of the total of 82,000 of its residents - as some moved to the city during the Nakba in 1948.
In May 2021, amid tensions in occupied East Jerusalem and a flare-up between Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza and Israel, Jewish extremists attacked Palestinians in several mixed cities, including Lod, Acre and Haifa.
Source: newarab.com
https://www.newarab.com/news/pregnant-palestinian-stabbed-death-israels-lod
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Lawsuit filed against Warren Co. Regional Jail, local officials, for alleged treatment of Muslim woman
November 30, 2023
Alana Watson
The nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization has filed a lawsuit against Warren County Regional jail and a number of local officials after jail employees allegedly removed a Muslim woman’s hijab and livestreamed her strip search on a TV inside the jail lobby.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) claims the jail took a booking photo of the woman without her hijab and posted the photo to its website.
Aya Beydoun, a legal fellow at CAIR, said the incident took place in April.
She explained that the Muslim American women is identified as Jane Doe in the lawsuit, because her picture without her hijab is still on the jail’s website.
Beydoun said Doe complied with a strip search when she was taken into custody because she believed it was routine.
She added Doe was not aware that the strip search was livestreamed to a television that can be seen in the jail lobby.
“Everyone in the lobby could see her strip search take place,” Beydoun said.
“She’s horrified, she began crying, only to have the situation get worse as she’s taken to have her booking photo and her hijab is deemed inappropriate and she’s forced to remove it.”
CAIR says the lawsuit seeks to have the jail implement a policy prohibiting officers from taking pictures of Muslim women without their hijabs because it’s a violation of their religious rights.
“On your passport, you can wear a hijab, you can wear kufi, a kippah, and other forms of religious head gear, as long as you can still identify the person’s face,” Beydoun said.
“You can wear them on a driver’s license, which our client has a driver’s license and a passport which feature her wearing her hijab.”
Beydoun said CAIR also wants the photo taken off the jail’s website.
Warren County Judge Executive Doug Gorman, Chief Jailer Stephen Harmon, Deputy Jailer Brook Lindsey Harp, and three officers are listed as defendants in the case.
Warren County Jailer Stephen Harmon declined to comment and told WKU Public Radio that the jail does not respond to pending litigation.
Source: wkyufm.org
https://www.wkyufm.org/news/2023-11-30/lawsuit-filed-against-warren-co-regional-jail-local-officials-for-alleged-treatment-of-muslim-woman
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Education and work ban in Afghanistan drives women and girls to migration
Fidel Rahmati
November 30, 2023
Women’s lives in Afghanistan have been severely restricted due to the imposed limitations. They are not allowed to work or pursue education in their own country. According to conducted research, they have not only become victims of crimes against humanity but have also been deprived of access to justice within the Taliban administration’s judicial system. This has led to widespread migration of women from the country. In this report, you will read the story of a girl who left Afghanistan after being prohibited from studying and working.
Khalida is now 23 years old. She left Afghanistan after the return of the Taliban, a place she described as having taken away her dearest loved ones, and now she grapples with an uncertain future in Pakistan. Khalida says, “I left Afghanistan, perhaps for a few years or forever.”
She was studying at a university and also working at a telecommunications company in Afghanistan before the rise of the Taliban rule in the country. Through her job and education, she was able to support herself financially. However, following the political changes in Afghanistan, she joined the thousands of girls who had to leave their homes, families, friends, and universities behind.
Khalida lost both her parents in a devastating explosion in Kabul about 8 years ago when she was just 16 years old. She says, “I lost my mother and father on the same day, at the same moment, when I was 16.”
What compelled Khalida to leave her homeland and face an uncertain and unknown future? She says, “I lost the dearest people in my life in Afghanistan, and I never thought of leaving, but the prohibition on studying and working didn’t allow me to stay in Afghanistan.”
The ban on women working and studying, often enforced through coercion and force in Afghanistan, has affected various aspects of women’s lives in the country. They have been deprived of any financial and educational independence. According to the Khaama Press public poll, after the rise of the Taliban, the status and influence of women within families have also been significantly impacted, leading to a noticeable reduction in women’s agency within the family structure.
Khalida believes strong individuals always emerge from a sea of difficulties and hardships. After losing her parents, she tried to become self-sufficient and considered herself responsible for her dreams with each passing day. She made every effort to achieve what she wanted, but the arrival of the Taliban administration rendered all her efforts in vain. She says, “I tried to stay strong in the face of challenges, but in an Afghanistan ruled by the Taliban, even the smallest movement was denied to me, and I had to escape.”
Ultimately, she left behind half of her family members and went to Pakistan with her younger sister, who was already married.
The Challenges of Migration: Khalida’s Story
Khalida says, “When leaving Afghanistan, I felt like I was carrying half of my existence, which made the journey burdensome. All migrants understand that they must travel light, leaving behind half of themselves, including their homes, families, friends, and universities.”
Reports from Pakistan suggest that cases of abortion among migrants with immigration cases have significantly increased, as the birth of an unplanned child can complicate immigration proceedings. Khalida’s younger sister had an immigration case for the United States, but she was forced to leave her newborn child with Khalida, a standard narrative among migrants.
Taking care of a six-month-old child is not difficult for a girl who has experienced the bitterness of motherlessness in her childhood. However, for Khalida, who values work and education, assuming responsibility for the six-month-old child has created a series of challenges in continuing her life.
Khalida summarises migration and its hardships in one sentence: “Migration is a punishment.” She not only fears deportation but also had an encounter with thieves who took everything she had when returning home from work one day. She was transferred to a hospital with the help of local people.
In response to the recent decision by the interim government of Pakistan to expel Afghan migrants, Khalida expresses her fear and spends most of her time in a room with a window, along with other migrant girls.
Khalida has access to all the necessary financial resources in Pakistan. Still, the uncertainty, forced deportation, and the feeling of being a foreigner in another country have subjected her to severe mental challenges.
We attempted to speak with Khalida in the room they shared in Pakistan. She said, “Khalida had long hair, and nothing is more important for a girl than her hair. However, amid worsening mental struggles, one day she picked up the scissors unusually and cut her hair shorter than usual with her own hands.”
Khaama Press’s findings, conducted through conversations with migrant girls, reveal that the prohibition on women working and pursuing education in Afghanistan serves as the primary catalyst for families’ decision to migrate.
Source: khaama.com
https://www.khaama.com/education-and-work-ban-in-afghanistan-drives-women-and-girls-to-migration/
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Begum: Online Education Platform for Girls Deprived of School
Fidel Rahmati
December 1, 2023
A new online educational platform named ‘Begum Academy has recently started its activities to educate girls beyond the sixth grade, fill the educational gap in the country, and inspire girls deprived of education.
This academy operates in France and educates girls from the sixth to the twelfth grades. According to the officials of this institution, a graduation certificate is also awarded upon completing the twelfth grade.
Ziauddin Bakhtiar, one of the officials of ‘Begum Academy,’ stated in an interview with Khaama Press that they initiated this activity in response to the two-year deprivation of girls from education in Afghanistan. These girls, according to him, are now facing an uncertain future and depression due to educational deprivation.”
Mr. Bakhtiar mentioned that one week has passed since the inception of this institution, and so far, more than 2,500 female students have joined it.
In the educational structure of this institution, course materials for grades 7 to 12 are arranged in a classroom-like visual format and placed on the website.
Anisa, an eleventh-grade student deprived of schooling for two years, has joined this academy from a remote village in Badakhshan province. Although she describes the cost of the internet and access to the antenna area as challenging, she believes that distance learning is valuable and hopeful for her.
About 800 days have passed since the deprivation of girls’ education, but no action has been taken to reopen girls’ schools by the Taliban administration.
Source: khaama.com
https://www.khaama.com/begum-online-education-platform-for-girls-deprived-of-school/
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