Category: News & Current Affairs
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India Deploys All-Female Peacekeeping Troops To Abyei In support of UN Mission
India, one of the largest contributors of troops to UN peacekeeping, is sending its largest single unit of female Blue Helmets in a UN mission (since 2007) to Abyei.
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“ISIS bride” Mariam Raad Granted Conditional Bail in Australia
In 2015, at 15, she fled the United Kingdom with two other teenagers to join ISIS fighters in Syria. On February 19, 2019, she was discovered in a refugee camp in northern Syria.
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Afghanistan: NGOs Halt Aid Services Until Restrictions on Female Employees Are Lifted by The Taliban
Half of Afghanistan’s population is hungry, and three million children are at risk of malnutrition; non governmental organizations (NGOs) have played a crucial role in addressing this humanitarian crisis.
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Bill Cosby Sued For Sexual Battery Following five Similar Suits
Stacey Pinkerton, who filed the suit in New York’s supreme court, claims that in 1986 when she was 21 years old, she was sexually assaulted by Bill Cosby.
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British Universities offer Free Access To Online Courses For Afghan Women
The government in Afghanistan declared last month that women would no longer be permitted to attend colleges and other higher education institutions. Institutions were instructed to begin enforcing the ban right away.
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Khadijah Okunnu-Lamidi, Named SDP Campaign Council’s Deputy Director General.
Okunnu-Lamidi, upon hearing of her appointment, vowed to work diligently to carry out the party’s plans and safeguard the most vulnerable members of society.
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Khadijah Okunnu-Lamidi, Named SDP Campaign Council’s Deputy Director General.
Okunnu-Lamidi, upon hearing of her appointment, vowed to work diligently to carry out the party’s plans and safeguard the most vulnerable members of society.
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Iranian Chess Player Sara Khadem Compete Sans Hijab At Tournament
According to the official website of the International Chess Federation, Khadem, also referred to as Sarasadat Khademalsharieh, is currently ranked number 804 globally.
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Enugu: Lady Allegedly Murders 9-Year-old Maid, Says She Was Kidnapped
Precious Korshima, a nine-year-old housekeeper, was allegedly brutally beaten by Mrs Ujunwa Ugwuoke, a Nigerian woman.
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Bosnia Nominates Its First Ever Female Croat Prime Minister Designate.
Despite ideological disagreements, members of the legislature from the ten parties that gained a combined 24 seats in the country’s October election backed a multi-ethnic coalition government.