BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – An indigenous woman in northern India is taking her fight for inheritance rights to the country’s top court, leading others who are pushing back against sexist laws and customs. Ratan Manjari, who heads the women’s rights group Mahila Kalyan Parishad in Himachal Pradesh state, received land she had inherited from her parents – a rare… Read more »
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s top court on Thursday decriminalized adultery in a landmark judgment aimed at upholding the right to equality and freedom, scrapping a law first brought in under British colonial rule in 1860. In a unanimous judgment, the five-member bench of the top court struck down a law that meant a man who had sex with a… Read more »
Gunmen killed at least 25 people and wounded 60 on Saturday in an attack on a military parade in a restive Iranian province that is home to most of the country’s Arab minority, state media said. The Islamic Republic News Agency reported the casualty figures at the parade in Ahvaz in southwestern Iran, and added that, with many of the wounded in… Read more »
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Soldiers in dress uniform lay prone in the street. Others, apparently heavily armed, faced the assailants, then threw themselves to the ground without firing back. Some just ran for their lives. Captured on video and widely shared on social media, the attack over the weekend on an Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps parade in Iran was a humiliating… Read more »
Tehran, Iran – This time last year, to buy one American dollar cost you 38,000 Iranian riyals. When President Hassan Rouhani‘s plane hit the tarmac in New York City on Sunday night, that number stood at a whopping 150,000. The drastic difference between those two figures represents the impact of US President Donald Trump‘s policies towards Iran. While economic mismanagement by Iranian leaders has… Read more »
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel told the United Nations on Thursday that his intelligence agents had discovered a “secret atomic warehouse” in downtown Tehran, escalating a growing confrontation with Iran and setting up a direct challenge to its government to open the facility to inspectors and prove it is not in violation of the 2015 nuclear deal. Mr. Netanyahu’s… Read more »
Peace activists who marched 600 km from Helmand to Kabul to call for peace have vowed to continue their activism with a series of protest tents outside foreign embassies in the capital.
Afghanistan’s tiny community of Hindus and Sikhs have been questioning their future in the country after a suicide attacker targeted a group of dignitaries travelling to meet President Ashraf Ghani in the eastern province of Nangarhar.
A Nangarhar radio station affiliated to the Islamic State (IS) is continuing to broadcast daily calls for violence despite the Afghan government’s insistence that it is trying to close it down.
KABUL, Afghanistan — The number of civilians killed by Afghan and American airstrikes is rising, the United Nations said Tuesday, as the Afghan government increasingly relies on airpower in its fight against a resurgent Taliban. The United Nations mission in Afghanistan said 21 civilians were killed in two airstrikes last weekend and urged all parties to the conflict to take… Read more »