KABUL (Reuters) - A group of Afghan men marched through the capital, Kabul, on Thursday to draw attention to women's rights by donning head-to-toe burqas that for many people worldwide have come to ...

KABUL, Afghanistan - The homespun Afghan burqa is under siege from east and west these days - cut-price competition from China, and Western influences that are leading many urban women to exchange the ...

2002-02-09 04:00:00 PDT Kabul, Afghanistan-- In a photo shop on the busy Karte Parwan street in downtown Kabul, a woman wrapped in a light-blue burqa stared at me. A minute passed, but she kept ...

Women in the western Afghan city of Herat say they're being told by Taliban officials that they must wear a burqa to access the main hospital. Doctors Without Borders is reporting a 28 percent drop in ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A new magazine offers a rare look at what's on Afghan women's minds and an even rarer view behind the body-shrouding burqas that most women still wear in public. "Roz" - "The ...

QUETTA, Pakistan, October 5 (UNHCR) - Lynda Lim has worked with refugees in her native Malaysia. Currently a community services officer with UNHCR in the city of Quetta in south-west Pakistan's ...