As it approaches its first ever peaceful transfer of power, Pakistan is “beset by a torrent of maladies,” a leading analyst suggests:
Its government is bankrupt. Its economy is mired in stagflation as the population booms. Terrorists strike all corners …
The United Nations has signed an accord with the Democratic Republic of Congo aimed at combatting rape and sexual violence by armed militias in the strife-torn eastern region.
The accord, seen by AFP on Tuesday, was signed by DRC …
Working with Sharks, a compelling account of a leading Pakistani gender activist, Dr. Fouzia Saeed, against sexual harassment at the workplace, was released in the United States on the occasion of the International Women’s Day. When a slightly …
Dozens of shoe-waving demonstrators today called for a Tunisian minister to quit, accusing her of a failure to defend women’s rights, a day after the verdict in the trial of a university dean accused of harassing …
No more illusions. No further evasions. Tolerate not a single additional apologetic explanation. Admit no further concessions to a false moral and cultural relativism, writes Hussein Ibish. The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood has now fully exposed itself as what many of …
“How does one navigate freedom in a nation relatively new to democratic reform and find the voice to speak when one has been silenced?” asks The Washington Post’s Kathleen Parker.
And how did democracy activist Zin Mar Aung …
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating the education of girls, has made her first video statement since she was nearly killed.
In the brief statement (above), she attributed her survival …
Two years on from Tunisia’s Jasmine revolution that sparked the Arab Spring, has sectarianism overtaken democracy as the driving force of the region’s popular upsurge?
“Tribal, regional, and sectarian factionalism made political progress in Yemen agonizingly slow, as did tribal …
Of the many mistakes the US and its allies made in Afghanistan, perhaps the most significant was to recruit Hamid Karzai to head the fragile state, says a former official.
“It would be a tragic mistake for the international community to conclude that democracy doesn’t …
A prominent women’s rights advocate in Afghanistan was killed by unknown assailants Monday, officials said:
Two assailants riding a motorbike gunned down Najia Seddiqi as she was heading to her office in eastern Laghman province, said Helai Nekzad, the …