On Tuesday, July 20, foreign leaders met in Kabul to discuss the next steps in what has become a long transition process for Afghanistan and its supporters. Afghan President Hamid Karzai addressed the group, saying that he is committed to working to reduce the pervasive violence and corruption in his country. Karzai and other leaders, [...]

In a recent article published by The New York Times, Hoda Gameel, age 22, describes how she wakes up at 7am and serves breakfast to her two younger brothers before walking them to school and returning home to get ready for work. She works all day selling headscarves in a mall, and at 11pm that [...]

The restrictive nature of many Afghani laws and customs has often led critics to refer to the home as a prison for Afghani women. But now these women face something even worse: actual prison.
As many as half of the women prisoners in Afghanistan have been convicted of “moral crimes.” These crimes include such acts as [...]

Human Rights Watch recently released a report titled “’They Took Me and Told Me Nothing’: Female Genital Mutilation in Iraqi Kurdistan” that details the prevalence of the violent and unsafe practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) in the region. While many people are aware that FGM occurs in Egypt and Yemen, most are ignorant that [...]