Some Afghan women are resorting to fiery suicides to escape what are often powerless and bleak lives, the New York Times reports in a dispatch from the region. One hospital in central Afghanistan saw ...

Self-immolation is particularly common in the Middle East where as many as 70 percent of all suicides occur by self-immolation. 8 A 2018 meta-analysis of studies published between 2000 and 2018 found ...

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Rape occurs all too often in Afghanistan and is under-reported, but more victims are agreeing to report the incidents, a Canadian government report on Afghan human rights has ...