QUETTA, Pakistan, October 5 (UNHCR) - Lynda Lim has worked with refugees in her native Malaysia. Currently a community services officer with UNHCR in the city of Quetta in south-west Pakistan's ...

Young, urban women in Afghanistan are increasingly ditching the all-enveloping blue burqa with a face mesh that has become a symbol of the Taliban's oppression of women. Since their return to power in ...

KABUL, Afghanistan - The homespun Afghan burqa is under siege from east and west these days - cut-price competition from China, and Western influences that are leading many urban women to exchange the ...

The activist Zarmina Paryani speaks from exile in Germany about how Afghanistan has tried to silence the voices of women and girls since the 2021 takeover ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan's Taliban rulers on Saturday ordered all Afghan women to wear head-to-toe clothing in public, a sharp hard-line pivot that confirmed the worst fears of rights ...

Eliza Griswold’s translations of Afghan folk poems. One day you'll look for me and I'll be gone from this world. Such was the landay—a two-line folk poem repeated over centuries among Afghan nomads ...

An Afghan burqa-clad woman walks past an energy drink advertisement in Kandahar - Copyright AFP Wakil Kohsar A production line in a warehouse in western Afghanistan ...

KABUL (Reuters) - A group of Afghan men marched through the capital, Kabul, on Thursday to draw attention to women's rights by donning head-to-toe burqas that for many people worldwide have come to ...

(AP) The homespun Afghan burqa is under siege from east and west these days cut-price competition from China, and Western influences that are leading many urban women to exchange the full-body cloak ...