The head of Egypt’s state council for women has accused resurgent Islamists of seeking to roll back female rights on such issues as divorce and custody and undermine the council as a discredited remnant of the Hosni Mubarak era. “They are trying to take away rights that women attained in compliance with Islamic Sharia,”
The story of 16-year-old Iraqi girl who shot herself in the abdomen using her brother’s pistol to avoid being forced into marriage to her cousin sheds light on the lengths women will go to reject forced marriage. “I tried to kill myself,” Jenan Merza from Sinjar told the New York Times on Wednesday. “I
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Female booth attendants at an international trade fair and shops selling men’s ties have become targets in a strict crackdown by Tehran police on clothing deemed un-Islamic, Iranian media reported on Wednesday. Women “not properly observing the hijab,” or the Islamic headscarf, as they staffed stands at an international food exhibition, prompted police to
Former Pakistani lawmaker and cleric Maulana Abdul Haleem recently issued a fatwa (Islamic degree) against secular education and justifying honor killings of women.[1]The fatwa was issued in a sermon during a weekly Friday prayer in Kohistan district in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Haleem also threatened that women from secular NGOs who visit Kohistan district may
A group of Egyptian medical and human rights organizations on Monday condemned reports on the mobile medical convoy for circumcision of girls in the southern Egyptian governorate of Minya, organized by the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), an Egyptian news website reported on Tuesday. They expressed, in a joint statement, their shock
The story of the village of Umoja, which means “unity” in the Swahili language, goes back to 1990 when 15 women from the Samburu district formed a group called the Umoja Uaso Women’s Group.
Gaza's laws continue to impose a maximum sentence of 24 months for honor killings - making them popular in the Hamas-run enclave.
Shaima Alwadi was taken off life support on Saturday, four days after the crime occurred in her home in San Diego, California.
FGM is affecting about 140 million girls and women, and more than 3 million girls are at risk every year.
