New rules have been handed down to women working in Ashgabat further restricting what they can wear, adding to a growing list ...

After unmarried Turkmen women learned they needed to wear yellow head scarves to work in Ashgabat ... less than a quarter of that in neighboring Kazakhstan. Every weekday in Lithuania, Russian ...

After putting this in MANY travel stories, I bought one for myself for a summer European vacation where I found myself at ...

Airplane Pockets is a small business that specializes in sanitary, portable travel organization products. My colleague Emma Lord owns and loves this: "I used this on a roundtrip from NYC to Tokyo, ...

Kazakhstan’s feminist activists persist, despite formidable resistance from both the state and anti-feminist groups.

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Having participated in numerous panel discussions and debates on patriarchy, I, like many of my contemporaries, believed that the only way to dismantle this oppressive system was through women’s ...

Young, urban women in Afghanistan are increasingly ditching the all-enveloping blue burqa with a face mesh that has become a ...

The retired 52-year-old boxer, who is a father of five children, has starred in images in which he is seen not hesitating to risk his life at Almaty airport in Kazakhstan. He wanted to exchange ...

Iran has marked its annual fire festival. The festival is known as “Chaharshanbe Souri” in Farsi. It comes a week before ...

Movchan, a 98-year-old Ukrainian wearing a weathered head scarf and donated dress, has lost everything to Putin’s invasion — her home, her community and her independence. Until recently ...

• A Brita water bottle with a filter built in. • A wireless transmitter that connects your wireless Bluetooth headphones to your in-flight entertainment. • A Trtl travel pillow: an ergonomic neck ...