294 Candidates for the Shura Council Elections, Including 29

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294 Candidates for the Shura Council Elections, Including 29 Women

Doha, August 31 (QNA) - The Supervisory Committee of the Shura Council elections announced the preliminary lists of candidates for the first session of the Shura Council elections, scheduled for Oct. 2. The preliminary list of candidates, which is..
Qatar Women's Sport Committee Signs Partnership Agreement with You Are Important Initiative

QNA Qatar Women's Sport Committee (QWSC) signed a strategic partnership agreement with the "You Are Important" initiative which is implemented by the Stadium Security Section at the Authorities and Missions Security Department of the..
China wants families to have three children. But many women aren't convinced

Faced with a worrying demographic crisis of its own making, China is encouraging couples to have more children. There's just one problem: women aren't too keen on the idea. For more than 35 years, the ruling Communist Party strictly enf..
Afghan women students see no future in Afghanistan after Taliban takeover

REUTERS A group of Afghan women too young to recall the Taliban's 1996-2001 rule are experiencing the same trauma once recounted by relatives after the group retook control of Afghanistan, leading thousands to flee the country. "We are..
Afghan women to have rights within Islamic law, Taliban say

BBC The rights of women in Afghanistan will be respected "within the framework of Islamic law", the Taliban say. In the group's first news conference since taking control of the country on Sunday, a spokesman said women would be....
Afghans will not tolerate women's removal from society, MP says

REUTERS In the chaos and uncertainty of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, legislator Farzana Kochai says she fears for her life first and her freedom next, but that Afghans will not tolerate a return to the harshest forms of Islamist rule. L..
UN chief urges Taliban restraint, is concerned about women, girls

REUTERS United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Sunday urged the Taliban and all other parties to exercise the utmost restraint in order to protect lives and expressed particular concern about the future of women and girls in Afghanis..
Canada to accept 20,000 vulnerable Afghans such as women leaders, human rights workers

REUTERS Canada plans to resettle more than 20,000 vulnerable Afghans including women leaders, human rights workers and reporters to protect them from Taliban reprisals, Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino said on Friday. The effort is in addit..
'I think about young girls... there are thousands of beautiful, young talented women in this country

BBC The UN has urged Afghanistan's neighbours to keep their borders open as the number of civilians fleeing the Taliban onslaught swells. Thousands of those internally displaced have been arriving in Kabul, seeing the capital as their las....

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