Human Rights

A young woman in Sindh was declared “kari,” dragged before a tribal council, and shot dead on its orders. The killing was filmed, and a week later her own parents watched it online. In Pakistan, hundreds of women meet this fate every year — and almost no one is convicted.

By Akber BukhariJul 28, 2026

The most common question asked of abuse survivors — why didn't she just leave? — is exactly backwards. Decades of research show the risk of being killed peaks when a woman tries to leave. Here is what the data actually says about intimate partner violence, and the warning signs that appear long before anyone dies.

By Akber BukhariJul 18, 2026

Rina Gonoi joined Japan's Self-Defence Forces after watching them rescue her town in 2011. When her own colleagues assaulted her and two investigations were dropped, she posted her story on YouTube — and forced the military into a public apology and a service-wide reckoning.

By Akber BukhariJul 16, 2026

In Malawi, becoming a chief is a man's world. Or at least, it used to be. When Malawi's first female Ngoni chief took her seat, she did not wait to be accepted. She got to work. In three years, she has personally dissolved 850 child marriages — returning girls to school, to their families, and to childhoods that were being taken from them before they had barely begun. No legislation. No international task force. One woman, one community, and the authority to say: not here, not anymore. This is what leadership looks like when it actually serves the people it is supposed to protect. Read the full story below.

By Akber BukhariJun 12, 2026

In Afghanistan, a woman is already one of the most dangerous things you can be. Now it is getting worse. Following the Taliban's ban on contraception, Afghan women are giving birth without doctors, miscarrying without medical treatment, and losing access to even the most basic medicine. According to recent projections, maternal deaths in Afghanistan could rise by 50% this year alone. Not because of war. Not because of drought. Because of policy. Deliberate, enforced, targeted policy — aimed specifically at the bodies of women. This is not a crisis that crept up quietly. It was built, one restriction at a time, by a government that has systematically dismantled every protection Afghan women had. What is happening now is the result. And the numbers are only going to get worse. Read the full story below.

By Akber BukhariJun 10, 2026

China's one-child policy didn't just control population — it detonated a demographic bomb with a 35-year fuse. Now it's going off. Births at 1738 levels. Fertility at 1.0. 400 million seniors by 2035. And no one knows how to stop it.

By Akber BukhariMar 23, 2026