European lawmakers have called on the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to carry out an investigation into the poisoning of tens of thousands of schoolgirls in Iran, as accusations grow of the Iranian government’s potential involvement in the cases. At the beginning of this month, Iranian state media and officials revealed and announced the […]
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Iran investigates ‘mysterious poisoning’ of schoolgirls as wave spreads
Iran's President, Ebrahim Raisi, on Wednesday ordered a time-bound investigation into the poisoning of schoolgirls in different Iranian cities, Anadolu News Agency reports. Chairing a cabinet meeting in the capital, Tehran, Raisi instructed Interior Minister, Ahmad Vahidi, to find the cause of the mysterious poisoning, which has sent hundreds of schoolgirls to hospitals in recent […]
Iran Schoolgirls Allegedly Targeted With Poisonings To Stop Them From Going To School
The first cases of poisoning were reported in November in the religious city of Qom. Source Views: 0
Afghans mourn schoolgirls killed in blasts as Taliban plans three-day ceasefire for Eid
Dozens of young girls were buried at a hilltop cemetery in Kabul on Sunday, a day after a secondary school was targeted in one of Afghanistan’s most deadly attacks this year. More than 50 people, most of them schoolgirls, were killed in the blasts in Dasht-e-Barchi, a west Kabul suburb, on Saturday. The attack hit […]
Nigerian Governor Says 279 Kidnapped Schoolgirls Are Freed
GUSAU, Nigeria (AP) — Hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls abducted last week from a boarding school in the northwestern Zamfara state have been released, the state’s governor said Tuesday. Zamfara state governor Bello Matawalle announced that 279 girls have been freed. The government last week said 317 had been kidnapped. Gunmen abducted the girls from the […]
More Than 300 Schoolgirls Kidnapped By Gunmen In Nigeria
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Gunmen abducted 317 girls from a boarding school in northern Nigeria on Friday, police said, the latest in a series of mass kidnappings of students in the West African nation. Police and the military have begun joint operations to rescue the girls after the attack at the Girls Science Secondary School […]
Schoolgirls kidnapped in northwest Nigeria
Kidnappers have abducted schoolgirls from a school in Zamfara, northwestern Nigeria, a spokesman for the state governor said. He declined to offer further details, including how many children were taken, though some reports claimed as many as 300 were abducted. All those taken were said to be girls. It is not immediately clear who was […]
82 Chibok schoolgirls freed from Boko Haram: Slavery in Africa and Middle East largely ignored
Christof Lehmann (nsnbc) : 82 more Chibok schoolgirls who were among more than 200 kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014 have been released, reported […]