A Swedish girl was recently rescued from the clutches of ISIS when she was reportedly tricked into traveling to the region with her boyfriend. She was eight months pregnant and gave birth to a son during her time with ISIS.
In 2011 an unmanned combat drone killed his father and teenage brother as they were out herding the family’s camels.
the Tuaiman men have been involved in pushing back against the Houthis.
Maqdad said the family had been wrongly associated with al-Qaida, and family members strongly deny that Mohammed was involved in any al-Qaida or anti-Houthi fighting.
After the killing of Israeli teenagers, Israel was able to launch a justified assault on Gaza. Specifically targeting Hamas, the Israelis want nothing more than the safety of their neighboring Jews and Arabs.
By Reem Abdellatif, freelance journalist It wasn't easy growing up as a teenage Muslim girl, with a father who thought he owned your body just because he put a roof over your head or food on the table. Not just that-this was a Muslim man who perverted the teachings of his own religion to justify. A very recent article.
majority of refugees are women and, especially, children; of the 200,000 refugees in Turkish camps, about 60% are children.
t was left to him to find tents, wooden flooring, carpets and paving bricks, desks, chairs, drawing boards, teaching aids and, of course, textbooks
urkish Red Crescent
acquired through AFAD channels a
egging
he result
ten large tents with floors
drawing boards
electricity
computer projectors.
limate control consisted of large fans
he pre-school director in Islahiye Camp used empty office and storage space in the warehouse to house five rooms full of loud young children
preschools enjoyed the largest proportion of age-group participation.
camp schools are administered by Turks
curricula are not recognised or sanctioned by the Turkish education authorities, and so licenced Turkish teachers cannot be assigned to them.
amp education directors rely heavily on volunteers from among the refugees themselves
time and instruction with the children is often inconsistent
not be able to teach in Arabic
There is little incentive for parents to commit their children to learning a new language
Closely related to the issue of language is the curriculum
eenage students in the camps generally do not have access to the secondary schooling
Indeed, one source of tension between Syrian parents and the Turkish authorities has been the Syrian demand for special classes for advanced students whose preparations for university entrance exams were interrupted by the war.
Syrian schools have opened outside of the camps with funding from the local government,
using the Syrian curriculum and books salvaged from Syrian schools and reproduced
Gaziantep
namely Syrian demands for the separation of the sexes in classrooms
Syrian parents also tend to insist that their daughters wear headscarves (hijab) in public and in schools, while it is illegal for Turkish teenage girls to cover their hair at school.
Tensions over the separation of the sexes, curriculum and language of instruction are compounded by the politics of Syrians refugee status
y contrast, the Turkish government chose not to officially recognise the Syrians as refugees as defined by UNHCR, and did not ask UNHCR to register the newcomers as refugees.
officially designate Syrians as refugees would limit Turkeys involvement in the Syrian civil war,
Turkey has allowed arms and non-lethal aid through its territory to supply the Free Syrian Army
here are also concerns that Syrians, desperate for income, take jobs at lower wages than Turks
Even guests can outstay their welcome, and with no end in sight to the civil war and no prospect of a return of Syrians to Syria, Turks are beginning to question how long they can sustain their assistance. I
une 2013 AFAD began accepting offers of financial and other aid from outside agencies, including UNHCR and the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).
The schools developed in Syrian refugee camps in Turkey provide valuable models for establishing schools for rapidly growing refugee populations.
The next critical challenge for Syrian education in Turkey is what to do with the growing number of Syrian teenagers who need to finish their high-school studies at accredited schools in order to compete for places at universities in Turkey or elsewhere.
This was probably the most interesting article I have read about education in the MIddle East. It is from the "Humanitarian practice Network". This article is about Turkey and the Syrian refugees, who are not documented as refugees, and the growing desire for improvements to education. Right now, the education which is in place for Syrians is adequate for a temporary stay of preserving knowledge. It is not designed to be used long term, to advance students, or to prep them for universities. This article looks at those issues and tensions which are happening currently in Turkey
Equality Now, a London-based women’s rights organizatio
Dorkenoo started organizations to battle genital cutting and co-ordinated the effort more broadly as acting director of women’s health at the World Health Organization in the late 1990s.
She wrote articles and an influential book – Cutting the Rose: Female Genital Mutilation (1996) –
“warrior in chief
“She inspired a generation of feminists across the world to take up the cause of banning the procedure,
Last year, the UN General Assembly voted unanimously to recognize female genital cutting as a human-rights violation.
British government prosecuted it as a crime for the first time,
African-led organization she helped found, The Girl Generation: Together to End FGM, began work this month.
practice is declining in many countries
teenage girls were less likely to have been cut than older women in half of the 29 countries in Africa and the Middle East where the practice is concentrated.
In Egypt, where more women have been cut than in any other country, surveys showed that 81 per cent of 15- to 19-year-olds had undergone the practice, compared with 96 per cent of women in their late 40s.
Female genital cutting involves pricking, piercing or amputating some or all of the external genitalia
vulva is closed, leaving a small hole for the passage of urine and menstrual blood.
The practice is believed to have originated about 4,000 years ago in Egypt or the Horn of Africa.
27 countries in Africa
Adherents come from a spectrum of faiths, including Christianity, Islam and African religion
often ages 4 to 8
pathway to womanhood
The World Health Organization says female genital cutting has no health benefits and can cause severe bleeding, problems urinating and, later in life, cysts, infections and infertility.
intended to reduce women’s sexual pleasure
preserve a woman’s virginity until marriage.
125 million women living today in the countries where it is concentrated have experienced such cutting.
The mother was so badly scarred, she said, that she could not deliver her baby through natural childbirth.
Ms. Dorkenoo began campaigning against the practice in the early 1980s
Foundation for Women’s Health and Development to promote the health of African women and girls, with a focus on abolishing female genital cutting
co-ordinated national action plans against female genital cutting in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Cameroon, Kenya, Somalia and Sudan.
In 1994, Queen Elizabeth II named Ms. Dorkenoo an honorary officer in the Order of the British Empire.
Efua Dorkenoo recently passed away. She was a women who fought for women's rights and the ban of FGM. She was an inspiration to feminists to take action.
WHEN Hind Al-Otaibi went to the Riyadh Personal Status Court to have her father struck out as her , or guardian, the judges seemed sympathetic. Her father had raped and bruised her, Ms Otaibi, who was a teenager at the time, told the court.
Four Palestinians arrested this week for Facebook posts have spoken of physical assaults they endured during their detention and interrogation. The testimonies were collected by the Palestinian Committee for Prisoners' Affairs and relate to four Palestinian youths, including at least two teenagers detained.
When Omaima Abu-Bakr was a teenager in Egypt, she wore miniskirts and high heels - in line with the fashion of the time. But she says the freedom in fashion didn't translate to equity in education or work or family life. Listen to the Story.