TEL AVIV – In response to a Saudi Arabian Muslim cleric’s now infamous sermon claiming that Islamic law permits men to beat their wives, a columnist for the country’s daily Okaz slammed the idea, saying that state law supersedes Sharia law and female victims of domestic violence must not be afraid to speak out.
An Iranian woman protested a ban on her countrywomen watching sports events live at an Olympic men’s volleyball match between Egypt and Iran this week. Security officials attempted to remove Darya Safai from the event after she unveiled a banner reading, “Let Iranian women enter their stadiums.”
Thousands of Hindu and Christian girls, many under the age of 18, are being abducted and forcibly converted to Islam before they are coerced into marrying their captors, according to Pakistani activists.
Shiite Iran continues to criminalize women’s right’s activism, designating “peaceful” female advocates as “enemies of the state” and using its elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to crack down on them, reports human rights watchdog Amnesty International.
In the Islamic Republic of Iran’s marginalized society, where women are relegated to second-class status and often treated like children, a growing brand of martial arts – known as ninjutsu – is providing women with a sense of empowerment and self-worth.
Jennifer Lopez plays six different oppressed women in the new music video for her feminist anthem “Ain’t Your Mama.”
Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin-Abdullah al-Sheikh, Saudi Arabia’s top Islamic cleric, defended the kingdom’s ban on female drivers by alleging that women will be exposed to new evils behind the wheel.
Author and historian Nancy Cohen stated that while “it’s not just any woman,” “it’s important to elect a woman president, and elect women leaders…because they’re going to do things in office differently than a man would do” while commenting on
Indiana women have formed an activist group called “Periods for Pence” to protest an abortion law signed by Gov. Mike Pence (R).
A Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) member of Malaysia’s parliament said he opposes banning child marriages because such a move would lead girls to seek out casual sex.
An Afghan family has asked for help finding their ten-year-old daughter after a group of men kidnapped her four months ago.
An Indian man beheaded his sister-in-law after claiming to find evidence of her involvement in witchcraft and black magic.
Data from the state of Jharkhand, India, shows a total of more than 127 woman lynched by angry crowds after being accused of witchcraft between 2012 and 2014.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards were among the women President Barack Obama praised at a Women’s History Month reception at the White House Wednesday.
A male member of Parliament (MP) in Iran is fighting a lawsuit following the outrageous declaration that women, like other animals, do not belong in the legislature.
A 15-year-old Indian girl has died after her neighbor raped and set her on fire on the terrace of her home. The fire burned 90 percent of her body.
Two Indian men gang-raped a mother on a bus in front of her three-year-old toddler and threw her 2-week-old son, killing him.
In observance of International Women’s Day, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei tweeted an image condemning the freedom women enjoy in the West as commodification.
Brothers in India burned their sister alive after she married a man in a different caste (social class) in the nation’s most recent honor killing.
Police in Istanbul, Turkey, arrested a woman and fired rubber bullets into a crowd attempting to celebrate International Women’s Day.
Turkey’s Women’s Library and Information Center Foundation plans to celebrate their 25th anniversary by preserving their priceless collection digitally. Organizers say the promotion of women’s arts is pivotal in a country with an alarming, and growing, problem of violence against women.
Democrat presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders discussed abortion for the first time during the Milwaukee debate, after calls from abortion political advocacy group NARAL which urged the Democrats to go on offense about abortion rights at a time when they are being challenged.
A New York Times op-ed argues that for “Muslim women’s rights activists… President Obama’s visit to the Islamic Society of Baltimore represents a step backwards.”
Saudi Arabia’s discriminatory automotive policies against women have allowed for the ride-sharing app Uber to achieve great success, due to females’ having limited transportation options.
An Afghan man fled to seek the support of the Taliban after he chopped off his wife’s nose in northern Faryab province.
Carly Fiorina will be the only presidential candidate invited to speak at the 2016 March for Life rally because, according to the event’s president, she embodies the theme of this year’s march: “Pro-Life and Pro-Woman Go Hand-In-Hand.”
The Left’s strategy for covering Barack Obama’s failures, and sticking us with his disastrous Secretary of State as his successor, requires his friends to somehow smear public opposition as irrational “anger.”
A bill in the Ohio state legislature that would require women who have abortions or miscarriages to designate whether they want their aborted babies buried or cremated is overwhelming a writer at left-wing Salon.
A three-woman delegation representing a UN working group on discrimination against women visited the United States for 10 days in December to prepare a report on gender equality in America, and reportedly were “appalled” by what they found.
Three radical feminist lawyers from the UN visited the United States for ten days, ending December 11. Sent as investigators of the UN Working Group on discrimination against women, their report shows they are not very happy.
In Afghanistan, women are expected to be virgins on their wedding night. If they cannot prove their intact hymen, brides face lashings or even death.
Addressing the shooting in Colorado Springs at a Planned Parenthood last Friday, Connecticut’s Democrat lawmakers said on Monday that verbalizing opposition to Planned Parenthood “can inflame someone who may want to take action.”
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The wine flowed mostly white as Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton took the stage at a female-oriented “Women for Hillary” event Monday night at the Hyatt Regency hotel.
Vanderbilt University psychiatrist, sociologist and director of the Center for Medicine, Health and Society Dr. Jonathan Metzl, who specializes in gun violence, reacted Saturday on MSNBC to the shooting Friday in Colorado Springs. According to Metzl, the shooting at the
Sue Ellen Browder – an award-winning journalist and author – tells Breitbart News that Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton wouldn’t be defending Planned Parenthood and abortion if she really understood that issue was part of the sexual revolution and wholly separate from the women’s movement pushing for more rights.
A Pakistani author has penned a new book titled I Am not Malala, supposedly providing a counternarrative to Nobel Peace Prize recipient Malala Yousafzai’s book, I Am Malala.
A Pakistani woman passed away after her ex-boyfriend set her on fire when she turned down his marriage proposal.
The Islamic State has begun shutting down gynecology clinics in its conquered Syrian capital of Raqqa, according to a report at Foreign Desk News.
The Islamic Republic of Iran’s regressive culture is on display again as one of the country’s best female soccer players has been forced by her husband to stay in the country.
The United Nations is hailing a change of language used by the United States to discuss human rights. From this point forward, the Obama administration has announced that it will switch to the UN-approved terminology of “sexual rights” to describe sexual reproduction and other issues.
