According to a new report by the U.S. State Department, Belarus, Iran, Russia, and Turkmenistan remain among the worst offenders when it comes providing protection against human trafficking and forced labor.
Health officials in a restive Afghan province say three-quarters of children under the age of 5 are being denied a vaccination against the crippling infectious disease polio.
The Pakistani government says it has granted another extension to a deadline for the forced repatriation of some 2 million Afghan refugees.
In rural Afghanistan, the Taliban have now banned adolescent girls from getting an education after forcing some schools to close and imposing their own curriculum on others.
More Afghans, Pakistanis, and Iranians sought asylum in the European Union last year, despite a sharp decrease in the total overall number of asylum applicants, according to a new EU report.
Facing militant death threats for helping the United States, Afghans and Iraqis have taken the U.S. government to court for swift decisions on special immigrant visas.
Almost 3.7 million children in Afghanistan are unable to go to school due to ongoing conflict, poverty, and discrimination against girls, the United Nations’ Children's Fund (UNICEF) says.
Tajik authorities are preparing to order migrant laborers to have their blood tested upon their return, and that means no unsafe sex until the results are in.
As the head of Afghanistan’s internationally applauded teenage robotics team, Qaderyan represents a new generation of Afghans determined to overcome the country’s recent history of division, violence, and oppression against women.
The United States says religious persecution continues to be widespread around the globe as it unveiled its annual report on religious freedom, with violations cited in Russia, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, among other countries.
A UN report says violence against Afghan women, including honor killings, often goes unpunished despite state efforts to prosecute such crimes.
More than 3,000 members of the Hazara minority have been killed in targeted killings and terror attacks in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province since 2001, leaders of the community told the country's parliament.
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