Afghan province bans male tailors from measuring women
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Male tailors in an Afghan province have been barred from measuring female clients for fittings following a new local ruling that resembles the restrictions the ultra-conservative Taliban imposed on the country when in power.
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Afghanistan's parliament has granted  immunity to all Afghans involved in the country's 25 years of  conflict, lawmakers said on Thursday, despite calls by human  rights groups for war crimes trials.
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Turkey's parliament voted on Saturday to lift a ban on female students wearing the Muslim headscarf at university, a landmark decision that some Turks say will undermine the foundations of the secular state.
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The Iranian Football Federation bans its footballers from having "unconventional" hairstyles on the pitch.
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A curfew is put on the Afghan city of Herat after protests at the sacking of its former governor, TV reports say.
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Few women will vote in Afghanistan's election because of threats by warlords, Human Rights Watch says.
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A leading election watchdog says it cannot monitor the election in Afghanistan because of unrest there.
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Taiwan clamps down on a matchmaking industry that leaves many women vulnerable to abuse
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Private clubs will no longer be able to discriminate on gender grounds under shakeup of equality laws.
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The famished body is banned for Fashion Week in Madrid.
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Congressional leaders scrapped a measure that would have imposed new restrictions on the use of extreme interrogation measures by U.S. officers.
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The Indonesian government has quietly imposed a ban on foreign journalists traveling to provinces it fears could be at risk of breaking away, as well as to several other areas that have been conflict zones in the past, officials said.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Sept. 25 -- A teacher for more than three decades and an advocate for women's rights, Safia Ama Jan ran an underground school for girls during Taliban rule. On Monday, two men on a motorbike gunned her down as she left for work -- identifying their target despite her full...
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KABUL -- While trolling the Internet last October, Afghan journalism student Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh came across some articles that questioned the limits of women's rights under Islam. According to Afghan prosecutors, he downloaded the articles and circulated them on campus.
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Afghanistan's parliament has granted immunity to all Afghans involved in the country's 25 years of conflict, lawmakers said on Thursday, despite calls by human rights groups for war crimes trials.
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The Afghan government has imposed a curfew in the western city of Herat, after a day of riots over the dismissal of the powerful local governor.
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Iran's legislative watchdog on Saturday  backtracked on remarks that women could be allowed to run in  June's presidential election.