Etichetta: Girls
Banned by the Taliban: the Afghan girls fighting to go to school – video
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After the recent Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, millions of teenage girls have been forbidden from receiving a high school education. Taliban officials have claimed the ban is temporary, but said the same thing the ...
One year into Taliban rule: the girls defying bans to go to school
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On the anniversary of the fall of Kabul, the Guardian’s senior international correspondent, Emma Graham-Harrison, reports from the secret schools set up in Afghanistan to continue girls’ education ...
An Afghan girl’s despair over school ban: ‘We are wilting away at home’
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Last year I was in 11th grade, the second highest-placed student in my class, with an average grade of 95%. Now I sit at home all day doing almost nothing. Sometimes I help my mum with housework, but really there are ...
‘They beat girls just for smiling’: life in Afghanistan one year after the Taliban’s return
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Maryam* is near the top of her sixth grade class in Kabul, which under Taliban rule means that her education should be ending in a few months. But the 10-year-old, whose name we have changed to protect her identity, h...
‘They beat girls just for smiling’: life in Afghanistan one year after the Taliban’s return
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Maryam* is near the top of her sixth grade class in Kabul, which under Taliban rule means that her education should be ending in a few months. But the 10-year-old, whose name we have changed to protect her identity, h...
‘They beat girls just for smiling’: life in Afghanistan one year after the Taliban’s return
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Maryam* is near the top of her sixth grade class in Kabul, which under Taliban rule means that her education should be ending in a few months. But the 10-year-old, whose name we have changed to protect her identity, h...
Derry Girls effect boosts Northern Irish talent at Edinburgh fringe
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The biggest ever cohort of playwrights, comedians and artists from Northern Ireland are bringing their work to the Edinburgh fringe this year, with performers crediting the success of Derry Girls for putting the count...
Paper Girls review – a hugely fun sci-fi caper that’s like an all-female Stranger Things
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Paper Girls (Amazon Prime Video) is a good if unseasonal yarn. This adaptation of Brian K Vaughan and Cliff Chiang’s comic-book series begins on 1 novembre 1988, the day after Halloween and a date known to the locals ...
Sesame Street theme park apologizes after Black girls shunned by costumed character
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A Sesame Street-themed amusement park has apologized and promised more training for its employees after a video showing a costumed character waving off two six-year-old Black girls during a parade went viral online. ...
Coroner issues warning on NHS mental health services after girl’s suicide
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A coroner has said Britain is failing young people and more will die because of under-resourced mental health services, as she ruled that neglect led to the death of a 14-year-old girl. Penelope Schofield, the senior ...
Summer in the Shade review – teenage girls bond in study of anxious adolescence
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It’s a sultry summer in the late 1990s and 13-year-old Grace (Niamh Walter) leaves her parents and their troubled marriage behind in London to visit Cornwall with her best friend Asta (Nyobi Hendry) and Asta’s boho-co...
Girls’ School: Taiwanese queer gem is hopelessly devoted to teenage passions
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Love is a many-splendoured thing in Lee Mi-Mi’s Girls’ School, a Taiwanese gem from 1982 beautifully restored just in time for its 40th anniversary. Screened in the UK at BFI Southbank as part of Queer East, an LGBTQ+...
Tweet on Tory candidate’s account says teenage girls smell ‘buttery and creamy’
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A Conservative local election candidate has caused outrage after a post on his account said 16-year-old girls smell “buttery [e] creamy”. On Saturday a post on the Twitter account of Jonty Campbell, who has stood fo...
Recensione finale di Derry Girls: assolutamente incredibile
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L'ultima serie di Derry Girls (Canale 4) è stato un trionfo. Piuttosto che riposarsi sugli allori, si è spinta a nuove vette. Dai suoi cammei di celebrità: di classe, risparmiando, e nell'ultimo episodio in assoluto, è giusto...
A note to students: read the greats of Northern Irish literature. Then watch Derry Girls
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I teach a module about Northern Irish literature called Alternative Ulster, which covers all the texts you would expect, from the poetry of Seamus Heaney, Medbh McGuckian and Ciaran Carson and the fiction of Bernard M...
‘I fell in love with it in a profound way’: how The Quiet Girl’s fostering story captured its director’s heart
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Colm Bairéad resigned himself to walking away empty-handed from the Irish Film and TV awards in March. His tiny-budget Irish language drama The Quiet Girl was up against Kenneth Branagh’s multi-Oscar-nominated juggern...