by admin_HRWF | Sep 3, 2019 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
RFERL (28.08.2019) – https://bit.ly/2lvJtbH – Afghan women are still being imprisoned for failing virginity tests, despite a nationwide ban on the unscientific practice, U.S. National Public Radio (NPR) reported on August 27. Farhad Javid, an...
by admin_HRWF | Nov 20, 2018 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
RFERL (16.11.2018) – https://bit.ly/2PtC8rb – DZHANKOY, Ukraine – Media reports in Russia say more than 30 houses belonging to Jehovah’s Witnesses were searched by Federal Security Service (FSB) officers in the Moscow-annexed Ukrainian...
by admin_HRWF | Nov 6, 2018 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
By Frud Bezhan RFERL (20.10.2018) – https://bit.ly/2AP4Dqo – The scenes of a public flogging in a Taliban stronghold in northern Afghanistan showed two women in blue burqas kneeling nearly motionless as a man beat them over their heads and bodies...
