Despite Tajikistan’s Law on the Prevention of Family Violence being in effect for over a decade, the government has failed to take sufficient steps to protect women from violence.

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 ...

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 ...

Like many women in post-Soviet Tajikistan Khulova had opted for an Islamic marriage ceremony, or nikaah, conducted by an imam. No reliable statistics exist, but legal experts say many, if not most, ...

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. Tajikistan has published ...

Authorities in at least one city in Tajikistan are keeping track of women who wear hijabs, a traditional Islamic head covering. The country's staunchly secular authoritarian government disapproves ...

Whilst male graduates presently outnumber women, Aslonova is working hard to increase the number of women and girls enrolling. She comments: "Since inception, we've had 2320 graduates. 448 are ...

Prague, 11 November 2004 (RFE/RL) -- President Rakhmonov's recent remarks on women and Islam are drawing sharp reactions. In an address to the nation marking the 10th anniversary of the Tajik ...

Tajik President Emomali Rahmon has congratulated women on the occasion of International Women's Day, and declared that the holiday would be known in Tajikistan as the Day of the Mother, RFE/RL's ...

DUSHANBE, Tajikistan — “One winter evening I went out into the yard, poured kerosene over my legs and set fire to myself,” said Mosharif, a young Tajik woman from Vakhsh in eastern Tajikistan. She ...