Girls

Taliban have said Afghan can return to schools. Photo : AP via Hindustan Times
South Asia

Taliban reopen schools for Afghan boys, girls still not allowed in classes

Taliban officials have promised that girls will be able to go to school so long as they do so in segregated classrooms and they have said they will not replicate the fundamentalist policies of...

Why don't girls have a pocket in their dress?
Videos

Why don't girls have a pocket in their dress?

Rasulpur Uttar Government Primary School polling centre. Photo: TBS
Bangladesh

By-polls: 3 Brahmanbaria girls jailed over fake voting

Experts estimate the annual cost of free primary education at $2.64 billion, a colossal sum for the Democratic Republic of Congo. Photo :BSS/AFP
Coronavirus chronicle

11 mn girls won’t return to school after Covid: UNESCO

Girls4Tech™ reaches 1 million girls in 30 countries
Education

Girls4Tech™ reaches 1 million girls in 30 countries

A Room to Read mentor speaks to a student via video call as part of the Girls’ Education Program work in Cambodia. Source: Room to Read/Bloomberg
Analysis

Girls are quitting school to work in virus-battered rural Asia

Covid-19 pandemic likely to push 47 mn more women and girls into poverty
Coronavirus chronicle

Covid-19 pandemic likely to push 47 mn more women and girls into poverty

Bhuj college students forced to remove underwear, prove not on periods
South Asia

Bhuj college students forced to remove underwear, prove not on periods

A woman carries her baby as she walks through a wheat field in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh April 17, 2014. Reuters/Adnan Abidi
South Asia

Baby found buried alive highlights India's battle to protect girls