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The coaching staff of the Tanzanian men’s national team.

International football

“The first thought is: We need a man for this.”

The German sports scientist and football coach Carolin Braun was most likely the first woman ever to be on the coaching staff of a men’s national team – in Botswana. Today she works for FIFA. We spoke with her about diversity in football, inequality in intern...

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by Carolin Braun
by Eva-Maria Verfürth

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Instead of going to school, young women are forced by the Taliban to stay at home.

Afghanistan

Where women are absent

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by Hila Limar
Kamola Alieva, lawyer and women’s rights activist.

Women's rights activists

“The criminalisation of domestic violence was a milestone”

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by Kamola Alieva
On International Women’s Day 2019, Afghan artists painted this graffiti on the wall of the Ministry of Women’s Affairs, which was dissolved by the Taliban in 2021. The premises are now home to the “Ministry of Praying and Instructing, Promoting Virtue, and Preventing Vice”, which oversees the implementation of Islamic law.

Women in Afghanistan

“Even that red line no longer exists”

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by Selmin Çalışkan
by Eva-Maria Verfürth
The Islamist regime is enforcing a repressive dress code, including in Kabul.

Gender justice

NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women

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by Khushboo Srivastava