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About 52 percent of women in Afghanistan have experienced violence in their homes, according to the World Health Organization
One year into the COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya, thousands of families are struggling with deepening poverty and unemployment. A survey by the charity Twaweza shows 60% of Kenyan families can no longer afford three meals per day
For over a century, International Women’s Day has celebrated women’s achievements across the globe, overcoming persistent gender inequality
Two documentaries shine a light on women defying the odds in the face of brutality and corruption
Nano Mikautadze used to cover her head in public after an autoimmune disorder caused her hair to fall out. But in her 20s, she decided to stop wearing head scarves and decorated her scalp with a floral tattoo
Al-Hol camp authorities on Thursday released 65 Islamic State families of Deir el-Zour under an agreement with Syria’s tribes
Seeing the violence against civilians in Myanmar in the wake of that country’s coup, Rohingya refugees sheltering in southeastern Bangladesh say their own experience has been validated now that the general Burmese population is experiencing the brutality of its military
In Iran’s conservative Islamic society, prostitution is illegal, immoral, and rarely discussed. But in an investigative documentary by RFE/RL’s Radio Farda, sex workers in Tehran describe a routine business where clients are easily found and family members turn a blind eye
Europe’s far right has suffered some setbacks recently: Germany’s top opposition party is under surveillance for extremism and France shut down a right-wing youth group
A Uyghur textile trader and entrepreneur has died days after being freed from an internment camp in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), where he lost more than 100 pounds of weight over his three years in detention, according to sources