Last week, the Taliban ordered an internet ban across several of Afghanistan’s northern provinces. On September 30, they ...

Fawzia Koofi is a former Afghan MP, the first ever female Deputy Speaker of the Afghan Parliament, and a veteran human rights speaker whose career embodies the fragile yet essential relationship ...

Wangchuk's wife and fellow activist Gitanjali Angmo says CRPF actions made statehood protest violent on September 24, says not been shown his detention orders ...

Pakistan's health minister says the country has vaccinated about 9 million adolescent girls against the virus that causes ...

A woman jailed in Iran over accusations she had links to a banned political group died in hospital on Thursday, 10 days after falling ill with seizures, and human rights groups blamed the authorities ...

While the constraining environment is a reality, so is the resilience and innovation demonstrated by women in Afghanistan.

Pakistan's Supreme Court has recognized transgender people as a third gender, which in theory affords them legal protection, ...

PTI leader Sardar Latif Khosa handed a letter from Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan to Chief Justice of ...

Prisons were central to the Assad family's brutality. They may also be key to future trials against the regime, writes Robin Yassin-Kassab.

Kasim Khan, political leader’s 26-year-old son, claims his father has not been allowed to see his doctor and his access to ...

Congresswoman Debbie Dingell described her meeting with corrections officials as "important" and "intense" after visiting Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility, where she and others met with ...

A Moroccan court sentenced a prominent feminist activist to two and a half years in prison and $5,000 in fines for blasphemy ... long used against sexist ideologies and violence toward women. Her ...