It has been raining all morning - not the weather the owners of a small household in Davlat-abad village in southern Tajikistan were hoping for. This is the wedding day of their daughter Zebo. The ...

In the Central Asian republic of Tajikistan, weddings are traditionally long, loud and expensive. But recently the wedding parties have gotten a lot smaller. The Tajik government has imposed a law ...

The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has expressed concern over recently adopted amendments to Tajikistan's law on the regulation of traditions and ceremonies, ...