Adultery is no longer a crime, India’s top court ruled Thursday, declaring a colonial-era law that punished the offence with jail time unconstitutional and discriminatory against women. The more than century-old law prescribed that any man who slept with a married woman without her husband’s permission had committed adultery, a crime carrying a five-year prison term in the conservative country…. Read more »
In Iran, TV channels – which are all state-run – do not broadcast most women’s sports competitions due to restrictions on showing women’s bodies. But thanks to social media, Iranian women are covering women’s sports themselves. They film the matches with their mobile phones, and then publish highlights on dedicated pages. Thanks to their efforts, fans can follow the exploits… Read more »
A child disappears every eight minutes in India. In the capital New Delhi, six out of 10 children who go missing are never found. They are called the “lost generation”: More than 200,000 children are still missing. It is estimated that 70% of them are kidnapped by gangs who then exploit them. Kailash Satyarthi, 64, and his teams are often… Read more »
DHAKA: Journalists and human rights groups are demanding major amendments to a bill recently passed in Bangladesh’s Parliament, saying it will further choke constitutionally protected freedom of speech.
New Delhi – India’s Supreme Court has overturned a decades-old ban by religious authorities that forbid women from entering one of the holiest Hindu temples in the country.
Campaigning has started in Afghanistan for next month’s parliamentary elections amid concerns that the much-delayed vote could be postponed again due to the uncertainty over new technology.
In 1960 under the organization and supervision of the World Bank, Pakistan and India signed into a water-sharing agreement called the Indus Waters Treaty. This allocated the control of the western rivers to Pakistan and the eastern rivers to India. Since the treaty is so specific and defined and disputes between the countries are easily resolved legally, leaving this to… Read more »