State television in Tajikistan is worried about women’s clothes. Earlier this week, Khatlon, a channel based in the eponymous southern region, broadcast a report lambasting pop music performers for ...

This article was written by Alva Omarova for Vlast.kz and published on September 11, 2024. An edited version is published on Global Voices under a media partnership agreement. Many women in Tajikistan ...

Cosmetic surgery and women's clothing are being targeted by the authorities in Central Asia. In a sermon that went viral, the ...

Tajikistan said Wednesday it would publish a new book updating the country's dress "guidelines" for women, tightening the secular state's policing of women's clothing. Authorities in the ...

Having banned 'foreign clothes', Tajikistan's president is set to issue 'scientific' advice on what women should wear. Some are pushing back Women in Tajikistan, in Central Asia, are being advised by ...

Women in Tajikistan are being advised by the government to dress more "Tajik-style" and not wear either revealing Western clothes or Islamic head coverings -- supposedly to reinforce national identity ...

A Tajik woman has accused Dushanbe police of insulting and threatening her after she was detained along with some two dozen others at a raid targeting women wearing Islamic headwear. Nilufar Rajabova ...

Tajikistan said Wednesday it would publish a new book updating the country's dress "guidelines" for women, tightening the secular state's policing of women's clothing.