Montly Archive September 2013

Nobleprize.org The Nobel Prize and Prize in Economic Sciences have been awarded to women 44 times between 1901 and 2012. Only one woman, Marie Curie, has been honoured twice, with the 1903 Nobel Prize in […]

Kerilynn Engel Women’s history In the modern era of democracy, women in countries around the world have struggled and fought to gain the right to vote alongside men. They have faced barriers to voting not […]

Interviews by Kira Cochrane, Sarah Phillips and Jane Martinson The Guardian (Monday 3 June 2013) On the centenary of the death of Emily Davison, we ask prominent figures from the worlds of arts, science and […]

BBC The body representing judges in Chile has made an unprecedented apology for the actions of its members under military rule in the 1970s and 1980s. It a statement, it said that the judiciary at […]

Armanshahr Foundation’s 120th (year VII) GOFTEGU public debate, a bridge between the elite and the citizens, was held in collaboration with Cooperation Center for Afghanistan at the French Institute of Afghanistan on 29th August 2013 with the title of “TASK OF THE NEXT GOVERNMENT IN THE FACE OF THE MONSTER OF ILLITERACY”.

Education in crisis. The mix of poverty, insecurity & lack of trained teachers in Ghor made many parents refrain from sending. Empty classrooms, fake girls’ schools, teachers’ salaries siphoned off by warlords: in Afghanistan’s west, the shadows of strongmen loom large.