Their many years of experience living in Afghanistan made Kiana Hayeri and Melissa Cornet indisputable recipients of the 14th Carmignac Photojournalism Award. They talk to Ailsa McWhinnie about the women whose voices won’t be silenced

THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC’S AL-ready lengthy catalog of fears has ballooned of late: alongside the possibility of being overthrown by its own citizens, it is haunted by the prospect of a full accounting of

IT MAY BE 2026, BUT MANY HARD-WON RIGHTS FOR WOMEN ARE UNDER THREAT. WE ASK GROUNDBREAKING ACTIVISTS, STORYTELLERS AND A NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER HOW TO MAINTAIN HOPE AND EFFECT CHANGE, EVEN WHEN THE WAY FORWARD IS UNCLEAR

WITH MORE MINORITY WOMEN BEING ATTACKED BY PARTNERS, WHAT CAN BE DONE TO STOP THE VIOLENCE?

For 11 or 12 days in 1654, Anna Trapnel, a self-styled prophet from Poplar, lay in a stupor in an inn near Whitehall. With her eyes shut and her body unmoving, she spoke and sang prophecies to the cro

TODAY, THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF Iran resembles a half-lifeless body collapsed on the ground, but holding a gun. With the support of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and other military forces, it