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An anti-drugs awareness rally in the northern Indian state of Assam in September.

Faith-based organisations

From gurdwaras to churches: Religion tackles India’s drug crisis

As government efforts seem to fail, it is religious organisations that are building the country’s most effective drug rehabilitation networks in India.

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by Rishabh Jain

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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