A new study links an imbalanced kynurenine pathway to higher depression risk in adolescents, especially girls. Lower protective and higher harmful brain chemicals, influenced by inflammation, may ...

Meanwhile, the classrooms are well stocked with religious texts. Girls study at the Shaikh Abdul Qadr Jilani madrassa This madrassa is divided into two sections: formal and informal. The formal ...

The new school year began on Saturday in Afghanistan but for the fourth consecutive year, girls over 12 were barred ... graduated from the madrassa after studying a broad range of subjects ...

A 15-year-old girl reads a magazine in Afghanistan. Higher education for girls is forbidden under the ruling Islamist Taliban. A new school year has begun in Afghanistan with more than 2.2 million ...

The comments come after a new study compared the mental health of teenagers in London and Tokyo. From early adolescence, girls from both London and Tokyo have higher levels of depression than boys.

You study well and, please, hold nothing against your parents. They tried to support you to the best of their ability," the union minister said. The girl expressed her wish to be enrolled in any ...

The call comes days after a media channel reported her story of being forced by parents to take admission in the Arts stream instead of Science, while her brothers were allowed to study the subject.