The United States is pressing authorities in Afghanistan to bring to justice an influential former head of the South Asian country’s soccer federation who is on the run from criminal charges of sexually assaulting multiple female players.
Pakistani officials say unidentified gunmen have shot and killed a transgender woman in the northwest city of Peshawar, in the latest violence to target the long-oppressed community.
Taj Bibi, a mother of five in her 30s, has lost three husbands, all brothers and Afghan army soldiers, to the war in Afghanistan.
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on September 2 ordered authorities to release from prison all female prisoners who suffer from physical or mental illness or who are age 55 or older.
Afghanistan’s cabinet approved the proposal of including mothers' names on national identification cards on September 1, a major win for #whereismyname? campaign activists that have spent three years fighting for the issue for women's rights in the country.
Five Afghan women who endured the Taliban's oppressive rule and fought for fragile gains since the militants were ousted are now preparing to face the hard-line group in peace talks.
An Afghan operation to apprehend the fugitive former head of the national soccer federation has reportedly failed after a standoff with armed locals in northeastern Afghanistan.
For nearly half a century, Saira, 70, has helped the region’s women and saved many lives. She is now a local legend.
Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is calling on Pakistani authorities to take immediate action to stop online harassment against female journalists that puts their professional duties and lives at risk.
For relatives, the fate of their disappeared loved ones in Pakistan is a constant agony.
Afghan officials say a member of the government's team tasked with negotiating with the Taliban has survived an assassination attempt.
In a show of unity against the practice and in a pioneering move the first of its kind in Afghanistan, civil rights activists, religious clerics, and women in Bamyan’s Yakawlang district agreed to ban forced marriages.
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