The Taliban's track record of human rights abuses, particularly against women, is well-documented. Reports of public ...
Yet even though Afghanistan is the only country in the world that prohibits women’s education, some analysts are urging the ...
“The defendants’ conduct—which included forced child marriages, physical beatings and family separations ... Lev Tahor, a cult that has been described as “the Jewish Taliban” due to its rigid dress ...
Yet, amid this festival of renewal, the onset of the new school year casts a poignant shadow for countless girls across Afghanistan, who are forced to ... the Taliban swiftly enforced more ...
The origins of ISIS can be traced back to the Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and the Iraqi branch of al-Qaeda formed ...
Books on the politics of immigration, detailed studies of lethal illnesses, a memoir of an estranged family, a history of ...
By Wayne Campbell Wayne Campbell is an educator and social commentator with an interest in development policies as they affect culture and or gender issues. This week, he discusses gender equality ...
The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in neighboring India offers a potential solution by easing the path to citizenship for persecuted minorities from countries like Bangladesh, providing them with an ...
Laila, an Afghan woman living in a remote desert village, has endured a life of deprivation, being married off at 15 to a man ...
has been forced into exile in a foreign land because of death threats. It is unfortunate that in Sri Lanka, as with most Asian countries, sex is a taboo subject. But it would be delusional to imagine ...
GILGIT: Protest demonstrations were held in Hunza and Islamabad on Sunday against alleged abduction and forced marriage of an underage girl belonging to Gilgit. The 13-year-old went missing from ...
A year ago on Wednesday, prominent Afghan educator Matiullah Wesa was abducted from a mosque by the Taliban, tortured and ...