Iranian women footballers reveal ‘enormous pressure’ of the Asian Cup saga
Two Iranian players who sought asylum in Australia before changing their minds tell their story to Al Jazeera.

Two Iranian players who sought asylum in Australia before changing their minds tell their story to Al Jazeera.









Inter-American Court of Human Rights says Peru must pay family of woman who died as a result of forced sterilisation.
Amnesty International decries Mohammed’s killing as ‘calculated assault to stifle human rights defenders’ in Iraq.
Players contesting the Women’s Asian Cup in Australia share fears for loved ones at home amid US-Israeli attacks.
India’s festival of colour has become a day when women brace for harassment.
The government’s performed outrage over Gates’s Epstein links underlined its indifference to violence against women.
US Democrats seek to scrap statute of limitations for sex abuse crimes in bill named after Epstein accuser.
Women’s rights activist Narges Mohammadi was arrested in December while attending a memorial ceremony in Mashhad.
The Clintons agree to testify in congressional probe of high-society sex offender Jeffrey Epstein amid contempt threat.

Senegalese men ask all the questions they don’t dare bring up in public at a so-called ‘School of Husbands’.
Mothers starving to feed children, surgeries without anaesthesia and loss of privacy define female experience in Gaza.