Afghanistan: The Price of Beauty
Women influenced by television glamour are eager to spruce up their image - but their quest for beauty can result in disaster.
Women influenced by television glamour are eager to spruce up their image - but their quest for beauty can result in disaster.
Their conditions of employment seem commendable, but female oil workers say in reality things are very different.
Without the pressures of marriage and motherhood, some disabled women in Dagestan overcome overwhelming prejudice.
Mothers are passing on a legacy of illness to their children.
Though most agree they do good work, women-led NGOs are vulnerable to accusations of being too close to the government.
Unlike its counterparts in the West, a new women’s shelter in Tajikistan aims to reunite troubled families.
Poverty and lack of legal status hit women hardest in the refugee community.
Women played a key role in the “Tulip Revolution” but are now in danger of being forgotten by the country’s new leaders.
Female sports, even when conducted away from public view, remains a sensitive issue.
Homophobia is rife in Kyrgyzstan with gay women particularly susceptible to discrimination.