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Neda Mohammad Nadeem says ban was necessary to prevent mixing of genders as rare protests break outThe minister of higher education in Afghanistan’s Taliban government has defended his decision to ban women from universities – a decree that triggered a…
Read MoreWomen’s groups and activists call on authorities to toughen laws after two men threw corrosive liquid at a schoolgirl on a street last weekHundreds of acid attack survivors are demanding stricter laws against the sale of chemicals, after two men on a m…
Read MoreA trio of ambitious Nepali climbers are among those reshaping the country’s male-dominated mountaineering industryThere is an irrestible energy in mountains, says Purnima Shrestha. “There have been so many memorable moments, all the challenges and succ…
Read MoreYoung girls illegally work the mines in north-east India, risking disease and death, while trying to better their lives at schoolWords by Elle Kurancid, photography by Walaa Alshaer Continue reading…
Read MoreExclusive: Alina Khan, star of award-winning Joyland, speaks out as the movie’s licence for domestic release is revoked, putting its Oscar contention in doubtA transgender star of an award-winning Pakistan film that depicts a love affair between a man …
Read MoreNotice issued to Rajasthan state government demanding police inquiry into ‘abominable’ practiceYoung girls in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan are being sold as “repayment” for loans their parents cannot afford, the national body that protects hu…
Read MoreMy work as a journalist made us targets. Now we have a safe new home and I am determined to keep reporting on the bravery of Afghan women and girlsJust over a year ago, I watched in horror from my window as Taliban gunmen appeared on the corner of the …
Read MoreLast August, one Afghan reporter told how her life imploded when the militants took power. One year on, she tells of desperate months trying to evade capture and flee the countryThe day the Taliban entered my city last August, I started to receive rene…
Read MoreThe Afghan rulers’ ban on female schooling has provoked global anger, but opposition is also growing from withinThe Taliban official’s wife apologised for keeping her visit brief. She needed to get her teenage girls ready to fly to Doha, the Qatari cap…
Read MoreStudents, mothers, widows, workers and artists explain how their world has altered under ‘gender apartheid’One year ago, the Taliban swept through Afghanistan, taking control of the country amid the chaos of the US and UK troop withdrawal.Now women’s l…
Read MoreShots fired into air and rifle butts used to attack dozens of women protesting outside Afghan education ministryTaliban fighters beat female protesters and fired into the air on Saturday as they violently dispersed a rare rally in the Afghan capital, d…
Read MoreAs economy collapses, women from Afghanistan’s finance ministry say they have been asked to suggest male relatives to replace themThe Taliban have asked women employees at Afghanistan’s finance ministry to send a male relative to do their job a year af…
Read MorePakistan’s security services have ‘disappeared’ Baloch people for 20 years, yet we are portrayed as terrorists. We need justiceI started protesting after my father, Dr Deen Mohammed Baloch, was abducted from his hospital in Khuzdar, Balochistan, on 28 …
Read MoreWinner of the inaugural Amal Clooney Women’s Empowerment award says she saw mainstream culture did not represent her, so she created her own spaceTanzila Khan does not like people feeling too sorry for themselves – or for her.“I don’t like sob stories …
Read More#FreeHerFace campaign gathers force as high-profile men rebel against crackdown on face coverings in AfghanistanMale TV presenters in Afghanistan are wearing face masks on screen to show solidarity after the Taliban issued an order that all women on ne…
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