Source: Dawn Lower-caste Dalit women in northern India are targeted for rape by upper-caste men who usually escape justice as survivors bow to pressure to drop their cases, researchers found […]
By Al-Masry Al-Youm Statements made by Al-Azhar’s Grand Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyeb in 2016 refute the controversial statements made this week by Azhar University Professor of Islamic Thought and Philosophy Amena […]
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Suffragette is a 2015 British historical drama film about women’s suffrage in the United Kingdom, directed by Sarah Gavron and written by Abi Morgan. The film stars Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Brendan Gleeson, Anne-Marie Duff, Ben […]
First a Big Questions, hour long talk show about what different religions are doing to women rights and gender equality: The panelists in the following debate are Archbishop John Onaiyekan, […]
Source: BBC The French government plans to introduce jail terms and fines for doctors who provide controversial so-called “virginity certificates” for traditional religious marriages. It is part of draft legislation […]
The Muslim Times has the best collection of articles about the holy Quran and the Muslim women rights Female Koran reciters ‘part of Islamic legacy’ Around the world, there are […]
Source: CNN By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN)An Australian man who punched and stomped on a pregnant Muslim woman has been sentenced to three years in prison. Rana Elasmar, a mother of […]
Additional Reading Gender Equality in the Holy Qur’an – In the Beginning Man and Woman Were Equal BBC Big Questions – Are Religions Unfair To Women? https://t.co/E6UbsSI1wx via @wordpressdotcom — […]
Source: Huffington Post By Emily Peck Between the pandemic’s toll on mothers and the right’s assault on reproductive rights, the equality Ruth Bader Ginsburg fought for has never been more […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Ruth Bader Ginsburg (/ˈbeɪdər ˈɡɪnzbɜːrɡ/; born Joan Ruth Bader; March 15, 1933, died yesterday on September 18, 2020. My heart is […]
Epigraph Say: “O followers of the revealed books! Come to a tenet which we and you hold in common: that we shall worship none but God, and that we shall […]
Written by Dr. Lutf U Rehman. Nashville, TN, USA Place of women in the religion of Islam has been the subject of much debate in recent years. There is a […]
By Dr. Lutf ur Rehman, Nashville, USA Recently in Pakistan, the Punjab Assembly passed a law which would make it easier for the women to report domestic violence, abuse and […]
Epigraph: “But whoso does good works, whether male or female, and is a believer, such shall enter Heaven, and shall not be wronged even as much as the little hollow in the […]
Source: Dawn Pakistan-born quantum astrophysicist Nergis Mavalvala has been named the new dean of the MIT School of Science, one of the five schools of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology […]
Source: WSJ By Ellen Carol DuBois When the 19th Amendment was ratified in August 1920, it launched a century of empowerment for American women. For American women, the battle for […]
Source: Swiss Info By Julie Hunt The Middle Ages were a rough time for women. They were considered inferior to men, and very few were educated. Convents offered them opportunities that […]
At a moment when the world seems to be spinning out of control, religion might feel irrelevant — or like part of the problem. But Rabbi Sharon Brous believes we […]
Source: CBC News · Salma Lakhani of Edmonton has been named as the new lieutenant-governor of Alberta, making her the first Muslim in Canadian history to be appointed to the […]
Source: Spiegel Translated in to English by Nirmal Adeel and Zubair Khalil Khan, Germany Note: Madam Doris Bauer, 52 years old, was engaged in priest department of Catholic Church Cologne […]
