When it comes to earning a living, women in Tajikistan are turning to leeches, meat factories and medicine as they try to compete in today’s male-dominated business climate. “Leeches get rid of bad ...

Women and children at the Al-Hawl refugee camp in November 2020. Of the some 400 Tajik women and children at the camp, only 260 people applied for repatriation.

Women in Tajikistan are being advised by the government to dress more "Tajik-style" and not wear either revealing Western clothes or Islamic head coverings -- supposedly to reinforce national ...

Tajik women can wear whatever outfit they want, as long as it doesn't include a miniskirt, a hijab, flat shoes, short sleeves, plunging necklines, synthetic materials.

Growing numbers of Tajik women are being divorced by husbands working away in Russia, leading to serious social issues, reports the BBC's Rayhan Demytrie from Tajikistan.

It sounds like a simple scam, and to the 56,000 Tajik people who bought into it, and in some cases lost everything, it must have seemed like a chance to make easy money in one of the poorest ...

Under Tajik law, women are entitled to 50 percent of a couple’s property upon divorce. Yet, research by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), shows that around 80 percent of ...

Tajikistan’s government takes little action to investigate or prosecute domestic violence cases and is doing far too little to help survivor. Despite progress in some areas, Tajik law does not ...

Tajikistan said Wednesday it would publish a new book updating the country's dress "guidelines" for women, tightening the secular state's policing of women's clothing.

Women in Tajikistan are being advised by the government to dress more "Tajik-style" and not wear either revealing Western clothes or Islamic head coverings -- supposedly to reinforce national ...