Geography

Pakistan : A proposed bill sent to Pakistan’s Senate that seeks to end child marriage.

Kyrgyzstan: New rape case highlights need for immediate action to end appalling “bride kidnapping” practice

Forced and Child Labor Linked to World Bank Group Investments in Uzbekistan

5th round of Simorgh Peace Prize: thirty best works of Afghanistan’s children is published over a 30-day campaign to expose their clear voices celebrating peace and rejecting war.

From domestic violence to forced sex work, and women categorised as “moral criminals” are jailed alongside convicted murderers.

The Many Dangers of Being an Afghan Woman in Uniform. Afghanistan has never come close to its set recruitment benchmarks for women.

The first-ever all-female TV news station there runs a lot like any station in the U.S., with one big exception: These journalists are risking their lives.

Two imams in Afghanistan are on a quest to educate men and women on the use of contraception as a means to halt the deaths of women at childbirth.

THE GUARDIAN By Liz Ford in Penjikent and Jomi  Women in Tajikistan involved in the Zindagii Shoista project, which is tackling domestic violence. Photograph: Anisa Sabiri for the Guardian. For 22 years, Rano Mahmurodova was violently […]

The Independent Experts’ Assessment on the Impact of Armed Conflict on Women and Women’s Role in Peace-building by Elisabeth Rehn and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Download here As Executive Director of UNIFEM I have witnessed the impact […]