Women rights

Malaysian Muslim women seek to stop husbands from straying.

Women in Saudi Arabia have begun the struggle for equality on a basic right that is not even questioned in most Western nations – the right to vote. Registration for the privilege in upcoming municipal elections, scheduled to be held in September for only the second time in the past half century, began April 23.

Woman says raped by Gaddafi’s men

The decades-old luxury of women's rights in Tunisia, a precedent-setting and unique phenomenon in the Arab world, may be in jeopardy.

Many Mauritanian women and their families are now stipulating the one-wife as a prerequisite before marriage, but religious scholars have condemned it as a violation to Islamic teaching.

In an unprecedented event for women in ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia, women on Thursday were massing at a Jeddah stadium in a bid to form the world's largest-ever human pink ribbon to raise awareness about breast cancer.

The only woman in Bahrain's outgoing parliament has already secured her seat, unopposed ahead of Saturday's elections, but the other seven women vying for seats look set to fall victim to sexist traditions.

Hundreds of girls are bring forced by British schools to wear the Islamic veil in a move which has been heavily criticised by mainstream Muslims.