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    Afghanistan

    Restrictions on Afghan Women Continue Unabated: UN report

    Hundreds of Afghan women were forced to quit their jobs or have been arrested and denied access to essential services in the last quarter...
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    Democracy

    From Buttocks to Electronic Bracelets: How Governments are Using Cybercrime Laws to Target Women and LGBTQIA+ People

    Many studies show how women and gender-diverse people are more commonly targeted by technology-facilitated violence. This problem is now further compounded by the legislative...
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    Features

    Women’s Shelters in Sri Lanka Support Survivors of Gender-Based Violence

    Nearly half of the women who experienced sexual violence by a partner did not seek formal help due to shame, embarrassment, fear of being...
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    Bangladesh

    South Asian Women, Girls Need Responsive Legal System to Gender Violence

    Long delays in medical examinations, police investigations, prosecutions, and trials are widespread. Survivors often have difficulties filing cases with the police and face community...
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    Afghanistan

    Taliban Feels Women at Risk are Safer Behind Bars

    UNAMA's report says that, there was a "lack of clear delineation of responsibilities" with regard to gender-based-violence complaints. Afghan officials have, for the first...
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    Empowerment

    Swat Women Won’t Be ‘Duped’ by Militants This Time

    Instead of giving the women what the TTP promised, they took away their right to life altogether. They were forced to give up jobs...
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    Human rights

    Government Indifference Deprives the Trafficked of Compensation

    The common thread that connects all victims of trafficking is poverty and lack of awareness. Poverty and unemployment drive people to migrate in search...
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    Empowerment

    Iran Convicts LBGTQ+ Activists for ‘Corruption on Earth’

    Human rights experts have expressed concerns to the Iranian Government that the two women may have been arbitrarily detained, ill-treated, and prosecuted on the...
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    Accountability

    UN Warns of Mounting Crises in Afghanistan as Security Incidents Surge 57% Under Taliban Control

    In a sobering assessment released this week, the United Nations has painted a complex portrait of Afghanistan under Taliban governance, where a dramatic increase in security incidents coincides with fragile stability, devastating cross-border violence with Pakistan, and a deepening humanitarian and human rights crisis.
    Civil society

    Sri Lanka’s Prisons in Crisis: Overcrowding, Mental Health Collapse, and Calls for Comprehensive Reform

    Sri Lanka’s prison system is under intense scrutiny following multiple deaths in custody.
    Afghanistan

    Wildlife in Peril: Illegal Hunting and Bird Trade Defy Taliban Bans Across Afghanistan

    The persistence of illegal hunting and trade underscores a tension between traditional practices, economic necessity, and modern conservation imperatives.

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    Accountability

    UN Warns of Mounting Crises in Afghanistan as Security Incidents Surge 57% Under Taliban Control

    In a sobering assessment released this week, the United Nations has painted a complex portrait of Afghanistan under Taliban governance, where a dramatic increase in security incidents coincides with fragile stability, devastating cross-border violence with Pakistan, and a deepening humanitarian and human rights crisis.
    Civil society

    Sri Lanka’s Prisons in Crisis: Overcrowding, Mental Health Collapse, and Calls for Comprehensive Reform

    Sri Lanka’s prison system is under intense scrutiny following multiple deaths in custody.
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    Southeast Asia set to miss SDGs to end diseases by 2030

    While some countries are expected to end malaria by 2030, major challenges remain to eliminate HIV/AIDs, tuberculosis, hepatitis B and neglected tropical diseases, the study found, with new HIV/AIDS cases increasing steadily in the past decade.
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    Civil society

    Sri Lanka’s Prisons in Crisis: Overcrowding, Mental Health Collapse, and Calls for Comprehensive Reform

    Sri Lanka’s prison system is under intense scrutiny following multiple deaths in custody.
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    UN Warns of Mounting Crises in Afghanistan as Security Incidents Surge 57% Under Taliban Control

    In a sobering assessment released this week, the United Nations has painted a complex portrait of Afghanistan under Taliban governance, where a dramatic increase in security incidents coincides with fragile stability, devastating cross-border violence with Pakistan, and a deepening humanitarian and human rights crisis.
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    Afghanistan’s Imports Surge 37% as Exports Slip, SAARC Report Warns of Growing Trade Gap

    Experts argue that investment in agriculture, mining, manufacturing and transport infrastructure could help improve export performance and reduce dependence on imports.

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