SIR – You discuss “how Covid destroyed all our lives, from newborns to pensioners” (News Focus, September 21). However, Covid ...

The new religious code issued late last month bans women from raising their voices, reciting the Quran in public, and looking ...

Besides imposing severe rules on women, new laws require men to grow fist-length beards and bar them from imitating ...

The reintroduction of “draconian” laws has led to a spate of chilling violence and murder in a troubled region of the world. In recent months, LGBTQ communities across Africa have faced increased ...

I attended Dr. Spiro’s workshop on the Lee County School District’s policy for complying with Florida’s draconian book banning law. Dr. Spiro was clear in emphasizing that his team’s focus ...

Rhyl High School in Denbighshire, North Wales, has been slammed for its 'draconian' toilet policy that sees metal shutters ...

A transgender model and popular influencer in the nation of Georgia was stabbed to death in her apartment in a “premeditated” attack, according to authorities, a day after Parliament passed a sweeping ...

The plight of Afghanistan’s women in 2024 provides a grim coda to the saga of the U.S.’s role in the country since 2001. It’s ...

In plenty of states, however, pregnant women are being denied life-saving care because doctors fear they might go to jail due ...

The law outlines punishments for violations, which will be enforced by the Taliban's morality police, known as Muhtaseebs, who can detain individuals for up to three days. The United Nations (UN ...

As the Taliban begins enforcing new draconian laws, Afghan women say that whatever hopes they once harbored for an easing of ...