The Taliban has locked women staff out of the Ministry of Women’s Affairs in Kabul, and has renamed the ministry the “Ministries of Prayer and Guidance and the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.”
Activist and former Afghan judge Najla Ayoubi alleged that the Taliban burned a woman for her alleged bad cooking.
Numerous threats from a suspected Taliban commander who opposed women working as broadcasters drove a private radio station in Afghanistan to shut down, officials from the media outlet revealed on Monday.
Saudi Arabia has arrested seven women’s rights campaigners, accusing them of working with “foreign entities” as the kingdom prepares to lift its controversial ban on female drivers.
Alleging U.S. “rape culture” caused the Hollywood sex abuse scandal, the Independent has claimed that only Islam can provide the answer to preventing violence against women.
Unofficial and unregulated sharia councils are in operation “everywhere in the country”, MPs have heard.
Turkey’s President has been slammed as “chauvinistic” for his insistence that motherhood must come before a career. Leave campaigners have repeated warnings that remaining within the European Union will lead to political union with Turkey. Speaking at the opening of
I used to be a feminist, but I gave it up so I could speak out for women’s rights. Even before the “intersectional”, “how many genders are there?” lunacy took over, feminism was filled to bursting with types who think
TEL AVIV – The Qatari daily Al-Raya published two articles condemning the Arab and Muslim world for denying women the rights afforded them by the Koran, saying a “backward legacy” favors Muslim men’s control over women rather than allowing women to express their individuality.
JAFFA, Israel – A landmark decision to allow women to vote and run in last month’s local elections in Saudi Arabia has been celebrated by women’s rights proponents and decried by conservatives. The ongoing debate culminated in two newly elected councilwomen in
