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A New Afghan Law Preserves ‘Virginity Tests’ for Women - ReliefWeb
Afghanistan this year adopted a new penal code that moves the country toward meeting international standards on criminal justice. At the same time, it underscores the continued difficulties of reinforcing rights for Afghan women and...
Pakistan on unprecedented security lockdown as voters head to the polls after election campaign marred by violence - Telegraph
Pakistan has launched its largest ever polling day security operation amid fears voting in Wednesday's general election will be a target for militant attacks. More than 370,000 military personnel deployed to guard 85,000 polling stations for the closely fought contest...
Pakistan elections: Extremist candidates are a 'real setback' for the country - CNBC
Pakistanis head to the polls Wednesday in a general election characterized by a heavy presence of extremist parties — a development that threatens to strengthen religious radicalization in the South Asian nation, which has long struggled with domestic terrorism. Right-wing religious factions have fielded...
Peace Teachers Program Announces 2018 Cohort
USIP has chosen Ryan Adams of Chelsea High School in Chelsea, AL; Casandra Bates of Centennial High School in Franklin, TN; JoAnne Bohl of West Central High School in Hartford, SD; and Jennifer O'Boyle of Klahowya Secondary School in Silverdale, WA, to participate in the 2018 Peace Teachers Program. Over the course of the next school year, they will receive training, resources, and support to strengthen their teaching of international conflict management and peacebuilding.
Charges of rigging, intimidation mar Pakistan campaign - AP
As Pakistan prepares to make history Wednesday by electing a third straight civilian government, rights activists, analysts and candidates say the campaign has been among its dirtiest ever, imperiling the country’s wobbly transition to democratic rule. The campaign has been characterized by...
Pakistan's Imran Khan seeks election win over jailed ex-PM's party - Reuters
Cricket star-turned-politician Imran Khan is hoping to become Pakistan’s prime minister after 20 years of being dismissed at the polls, as the country prepares to vote in a tense election pitting him against the party of jailed ex-premier Nawaz Sharif. Just over a decade after the end of Pakistan’s most recent era of...
Pakistan Election 2018 live: Imran Khan, Shahbaz Sharif, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari battle for power - Gulf News
When one drives through the two busiest main roads of Karachi - the Sharea Faisal and University Road - there is not a single sign of an election being conducted or a campaign going on. There are no banners, posters or even a flag of any political party taking part in the 25th July general elections...
To achieve peace in Afghanistan, turn to lessons from North Korea - The Hill
The willingness of the Trump administration to take unorthodox risks has created perhaps the best opportunity in decades for peace on the Korean Peninsula, notwithstanding the recent contentious rhetoric from both sides that illustrates the enormous obstacles still ahead. This raises the question of...
One of Afghanistan's most divisive figures — who is also a vice president — returns from exile - Washington Post
Afghan Vice President Abdurrashid Dostum — a former warlord who lived in exile for more than a year following sexual assault charges — returned Sunday to a warm government welcome, but his legal problems still loom and a bombing that killed 14 people as he arrived...