Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir – For more than a week now; a section of the minority Sikh community in Indian-administered Kashmir has been protesting against what they call the “forced conversion” of two women who married Muslim men; a claim denied by police officials and the men’s families who say the unions are interfaith marriages. Manmeet […]
34-year-old Rani Khan, who was disowned by her family at the young age of 13 and forced into begging, set up a two-room transgender-only Islamic school in Islamabad in October 2020. Why it matters: While Pakistan’s parliament recognized the third gender in 2018; giving fundamental rights including the ability to vote and choose their gender […]