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The Olympics dream: Female cyclists in Kabul brave stigma to live their goal

Under the supervision of the Afghanistan Cycling Federation, close to 30 young women are registered for regular training sessions in Kabul. (Representational Image)
Updated on Aug 16, 2020 04:05 pm IST

Online child sex abuse cases triple under lockdown in Philippines

The spread of cheap, high-speed internet and the rise in mobile phone ownership has fuelled livestreamed abuse - known as cybersex trafficking - in recent years and the Philippines is considered by charities to be the epicentre of the global trade.
Updated on May 30, 2020 11:54 am IST

Spain provides lockdown support for trafficking victims, prostitutes

Under the new measures, victims will be able to access improved support services, emergency accommodation and claim a new social benefit for those at risk of extreme poverty.
Updated on Apr 22, 2020 02:43 pm IST

Asia’s ‘gay Netflix’ to go global, tap into coronavirus

Asia’s first LGBT+ video streaming platform, dubbed the continent’s “gay Netflix”, is going global - hoping to reach hundreds of millions of people isolated by the coronavirus.
Updated on Apr 11, 2020 04:33 pm IST

Fashion victims: Kazakh magazine apologises for murder photoshoot, critics say ‘eroticising violence against women’

The spread in Buro 24/7 Kazakhstan showed a girl in a black dress lying lifeless near a bloodied knife with her hand tied to a water pipe and a woman sprawling motionless on a bed as forensic scientists put her stiletto shoes in a plastic bag.
Updated on Sept 12, 2019 05:55 pm IST