Late last year, Malaysia's state-owned bus company began running female-only buses on several routes in Kuala Lumpur during peak hours to help counter sexual harassment on crowded public transport.
Ameneh Bahrami, 34, suffered severe injuries to her eyes, face and hands when a former university classmate, Majid Movahedi, threw acid in her face after she rejected his advances
Iraqi women are also affected by a lack of social services, and some must head their households alone because of the death of a husband or son
The rapist was her cousin's husband
With the “khula” law, divorce cases have amounted to 5.4 million and around seven million children ended up in orphanages or in the streets especially after one of the parents or both remarry
The security of women is imperiled by the spread of Islam in Western society, which is accepting its aggressive misogyny without question or even mention.
Under Mubarak the police and security forces have been known to threaten and even target victims of abuse by the state's forces,
A man who lived near the women, Mohammad Jan, said the women had been “accused of adultery and immoral activities.”
Forty-four percent of the people at threat or subjected to forced marriages held German passports.
Many secularist women, including urban professionals, say they do not believe these promises.
