Jan 7 (Reuters) - A group of British lawmakers urged England to boycott their Champions Trophy match against Afghanistan next month, saying the country's cricket board (ECB) needed to take a stand ...

This dispatch was co-authored by Divyabharthi Baradhan (JURIST Staff, Malaysia) and Sarisha Harikrishna (Queen's University Belfast School of Law, United Kingdom). In a landmark ruling, the ...

The Taliban has dismissed accusations of gender discrimination and human rights violations as absurd. These four countries initiated legal proceedings against the Taliban for breaching a U.N.

“My team-mates are my sisters. Our dream is to play together again, standing side by side.” In June 2021, Fatima Foladi was a rising football star in Afghanistan when she scored against Tajikistan in ...

The Taliban has banned women in Afghanistan from hearing each other’s voices in what experts say is its latest step toward erasing “women entirely from public life and society”. The country’s Minister ...

FIFA has sanctioned the establishment of an Afghanistan women’s refugee team which will be able to participate in matches overseen by world football’s governing body. Such a move would see the ...

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 27: Nahida Sapan and Firoza Amiri of the Afghanistan XI speak to media during a media opportunity with the Afghanistan XI ahead of the Afghanistan XI v Cricket Without ...

Afghan female athletes who fled to Pakistan to escape Taliban restrictions are facing a slew of problems, including poverty, a lack of training facilities, and uncertainty about their immigration ...

The world has long been aware of the scourge of apartheid -- the systemic segregation or discrimination of people based on their race. But what about the institutionalized practice of singling people ...

England's men's cricket team is set to face Afghanistan on Feb. 26 in the International Cricket Council (ICC) Champions Trophy group stage. However, women's rights activists have called for England to ...