Freshta Jalalzai, a journalist with RFE/RL’s Afghan Service, known locally as Radio Azadi, talks about the expectations Afghan women have for the negotiation process, and the role of radio, and the Afghan Service, in making their voices heard.
On International Women's Day, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has brought to the attention of the world the cases of women journalists jailed in retaliation for their work.
Videos shared on social media recently have demonstrated the "shocking levels of abuse" women in Iran face from morality police and pro-government "thugs" seeking to enforce the country's strict dress code, Amnesty International says.
The United States has condemned the new prison sentences reportedly imposed on Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh “in the strongest possible terms.”
Films dealing with domestic violence have spurred discussion about the problem in Georgia.
RFE/RL’s Afghan Service reports on a rights group in Pakistan’s tribal regions that defends ethnic Pashtuns and is putting women at the fore of their movement.
Jiri Dienstbier Journalism Fellow co-authors first biography and portrait collection dedicated to unsung heroines of her country.
Bulgaria's government remains eerily silent despite "grave concern" in some quarters over a deputy prime minister's clumsy suggestions for "dealing with the Gypsy question."
With widespread reports of abuse and squalid conditions, Russian penitentiaries are loathed and feared by those serving sentences there -- and that goes for the women, too.
An aide to Iran's president asked what kind of message state TV was trying to send by showing an abusive man alongside his wife, who'd unsuccessfully sought a divorce dozens of times.
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