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by Emmanuel DUPARCQ KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — Universities in Kabul were almost empty on the first day of the Afghan school year, as professors and students wrestled with the Taliban’s restrictive new rules for the classroom. The Taliban have promised a softer rule than during their first stint in power from 1996-2001, when women’s freedoms in Afghanistan were sharply curtailed and they were banned from higher education. This time, the hardline Islamist group have said […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — American Jade Carey won women’s gymnastics floor gold at the Olympics on Monday in a quick upturn in fortune after disappointing in the vault final 24 hours earlier. The 21-year-old from Arizona tumbled her way to a score of 14.366 to take the title from Italian 30-year-old veteran Vanessa Ferrari. There was a rare dead-heat for bronze between Japan’s Mai Murakami and Angelina Melnikova, who led the Russians to team gold […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — The Moscow metro said Sunday it had hired female drivers for the first time in its recent history, following recent changes in controversial Russian legislation prohibiting women from many professions. The Russian capital’s transport system, which oversees the sprawling metro system, said in a statement that “the first female electric train drivers in modern history started working for the Moscow metro.” Built in the Soviet era as a Communist showpiece, the […]
by Jessica Lopez with AFP bureaus Agence France Presse No country has been spared the coronavirus epidemic, nor the scourge of domestic violence, which has surged during lockdowns as the day marking such violence approaches on Wednesday. From a spike in rapes in Nigeria and South Africa, increased numbers of women missing in Peru, higher rates of women being killed in Brazil and Mexico and overwhelmed associations in Europe: the pandemic has aggravated the plague […]
by Nina LARSON Agence France Presse GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Global child and maternal deaths have fallen sharply in recent decades, but new UN statistics released Thursday show unequal progress, with more than five childbirths a minute ending in tragedy. Two reports by several United Nations’ agencies showed clear global progress in reducing the number of pregnant women or new mothers and young children who die each year, pointing to improved access to affordable, […]
Today, March 8, as the world celebrates International Women’s Day, take a look at these women world leaders and heads of state presently holding office. Infographics courtesy Agence France Presse
by Catherine Marciano Agence France Presse The Catholic Church’s Pope Francis admitted Tuesday that priests and bishops had sexually abused nuns, the latest scandal to rock the church. “There are some priests and also bishops who have done it,” the pontiff said in response to a journalist’s question on the abuse of nuns, speaking on the return flight from his trip to the United Arab Emirates. The papal admission followed a rare outcry last […]
by Serene Assir / Isabel Malsang Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Extreme weather events were a leading cause of global hunger rising last year, with women, babies, and old people particularly vulnerable to the worsening trend, a UN report said Tuesday. Increasingly frequent shocks such as extreme rainfall or temperatures, as well as droughts, storms, and floods, helped push the number of undernourished people to 821 million in 2017, it said. That […]
by Michael Mathes Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The fate of Donald Trump’s US Supreme Court nominee increasingly appears to lie in the hands of two Republican senators, pro-choice moderates with a penchant for rebellion — and who have bucked the president before. But despite extraordinary pressure already heaped on Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski by liberal groups, and Democrats who warn that confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh could spell disaster for […]
(Eagle News) — Davao Mayor Sara Duterte on Wednesday, June 27, said the #Babaeako social media campaign against President Rodrigo Duterte was bound to fail. In an Instagram post, the Davao mayor said that in the first place, “what (the President) doesn’t like lies not in the gender, but in the character.” “He has no respect for weakness. And many women and some men are known to be damsels in distress, that #babaeako included,” she said. […]
by Anuj Chopra Agence France Presse RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) — Saudi women celebrated taking the wheel for the first time in decades Sunday as the kingdom overturned the world’s only ban on female motorists, a historic reform expected to usher in a new era of social mobility. The much-trumpeted move is part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s plan to modernise the conservative petrostate — but it has been dented by the jailing […]
by Patrick Rahir Agence France Presse MADRID, Spain (AFP) — King Felipe VI on Thursday swore in Spain’s new pro-EU government with a record 11 women members including in key posts such as defence and economy, and six male ministers. With just 84 seats in Spain’s 350-seat parliament, Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s administration also has the smallest representation of any government since the country returned to democracy and it is not expected to […]
