When one thinks of road construction, one often conjures up images of muscular men digging trenches and moving boulders. At this year's Photo Kathmandu, Nepal's international
(This is a reportage from our March 2015 print quarterly, 'Labour and its discontents'. See more from the issue here.)
In early 2004, Sushila Karki Pyakurel was on
The stoning of a woman and the attack at a weekend vacation spot have woken up Afghanistan's young but a pro-peace protest movement is only at its very beginnings.
Land of the Unconquerable: The lives of contemporary
Afghan women
edited by Jennifer Heath
& Ashraf Zahedi
University of California Press, 2011
Among the more common forms of violence inflicted
He wanted me … it was obvious the second he appeared on the steps. His eyes were on my body, left right centre, and then he looked straight at me, like
