Indonesian, Iranian conference looks at women’s rights
AKARTA: A joint Iran and Indonesia conference on the rights of the Muslim women was largely seen as a popular step in the right direction by officials in both countries, […]
Israel ministry waits for Jewish ruling on letting women eulogize
Ministerial committee to advance status of women decided recently that Religious Services Ministry should amend burial society licenses so that women may accompany dead to graves, eulogize them at funerals. […]
Sacred women in Israel and Palestine
I can think of about four million Palestinians who can sympathise with Naama Margolese, the eight-year-old Israeli girl, whose routine humiliation by ultra-Orthodox Israelis on her way to school has “shocked” the nation, uniting the majority of Jewish Israelis in anger at the growing power of harshly conservative Jewish movements […]
Pakistan Minority rights: Silence, increasing intolerance make for another grim year
Express Tribune: The year opened with the assassination of then Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer by his own security guard Mumtaz Qadri in Islamabad on January 4. Taseer was killed for speaking against the blasphemy law and raising a voice in favour of Aasia Bibi, a Christian woman sentenced to death […]
Anne Sinclair’s ‘woman of the year’ award is a repulsive deceit
Of all the achievements of Gallic womanhood in 2011, it would be difficult to beat Christine Lagarde becoming the first female head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Whatever you think about her rightwing economics, the 55-year-old academics’ daughter from Le Havre built her outstandingly successful career alone. She rarely […]
IVF clinics ‘are ripping off desperate couples’
Fertility clinics are charging women who want to have children three times the actual cost of their treatment – with the NHS as guilty as private practitioners in exploiting desperate couples. The accusation comes from the fertility pioneer Lord Robert Winston, who today launches […]
Israeli Girl, 8, at Center of Tension Over Religious Extremism
She is Naama Margolese, 8, the daughter of American immigrants who are observant modern Orthodox Jews. An Israeli weekend television program told the story of how Naama had become terrified of walking to her elementary school here after ultra-Orthodox men spit on her, insulted her and called her a prostitute […]
Six women among 109 Kuwait parliament candidates as registration starts
Manama: Six women were among the 109 candidates who submitted their papers to run in Kuwait’s parliamentary elections on the first day of the application process. Under the country’s elections laws, parliament hopefuls have ten days to sign up their names for the elections in which around 400,000 eligible voters […]
We must stop this culture of gender violence
Courtesy: Straight.com November 29, 2011 Catherine Murray and Jen Marchbank Remember Canada’s fallen women next Tuesday. Despite our peaceable self image, Canada has been home to femicide, appalling massacres, and serial killers. December 6 is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada. But unlike […]
Bangladesh wrestles with trials from ’71 war
Courtesy: Associated Press By JULHAS ALAM – DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — It should have been like any other morning. But March 26, 1971, was the first full day of a war that would tear apart the region then called East Pakistan. When the fighting ended nine months later, as many […]
Bangladesh on its 40th Anniversary – The Takeaway
Courtesy: thetakeaway.org, mumbaimirror.org, amnistyusa.org http://www.thetakeaway.org/media/audioplayer/takeaway_player.swf// < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // On Friday, Bangladesh marks its 40th anniversary. The Takeaway spends a few minutes on one American hero tied to this anniversary, a former U.S. diplomat who served in what was then known as East […]
Indonesian Women Awarded for Community Contributions
Yes, They Can: Traditionally, the only roles available to women in Indonesia were “masak, macak dan manak” (cooking, dressing up and bearing children). But today, this is far from the […]
Outrage over Israeli women still being segregated on buses despite practice being outlawed
A woman who took to Facebook to vent her disgust after being shoved to the back of a bus in Israel, despite segregation being outlawed more than a year ago, has sparked outrage across the country. Tanya Rosenblit, 28, from the southern town of Ashdod, boarded a bus to an […]
Journalists with Headscarves in Morocco – Kept under Cover
Source: Qantara As in many other Muslim countries, increasing numbers of women in Morocco are entering the labour market. Among these women, there are many who wear headscarves. However, there would appear to be an unwritten rule in Moroccan radio and television that women in headscarves should not be employed […]
Mine jobs protest for 33 Chilean women
Thirty-three women in Chile have shut themselves in a mine after a government jobs programme that helped the victims of last February’s earthquake ended. The women, in an echo of the story of the 33 trapped and then rescued miners, went into a former coal mine 500km (300 miles) south […]
Vietnam needs to do more to improve gender equality: World Bank
Vietnam has made remarkable progress toward gender equality but important gender differences still remain, according to the latest World Bank report. The “Vietnam Country Gender Assessment” analyzed and evaluated gender issues in Vietnam in three aspects: Poverty and Well Being, Employment and Livelihoods and Political Participation.
Saudi woman set to conquer Antarctica
Sahar Al-Shamrani, By ARAB NEWS RIYADH: Sahar Al-Shamrani from the Eastern Province is preparing to be the first Saudi woman to travel to the South Pole, Al-Eqtisadiah newspaper reported Monday. […]
African Women Scientists Honoured with Science Awards
Seven of Africa’s top women scientists have been honoured with the Kwame Nkrumah Science Awards for 2011 for outstanding achievements and valuable scientific discoveries at ceremonies to mark the founding […]
Hadhrat Ayesha’s Age at the Time of Her Marriage
By Shazim Ahmad (Facebook) Hadhrat Ayesha (ra) was the third wife o f the Holy Prophet Muhammad (saw) and the daughter of Hadhrat Abu Bakr (ra) and Hadhrat Zaynab (ra) (Um Rumaan). She was young when she married the Holy Prophet, but her age was never an issue until it […]
Islam and Women’s Rights
The following is an address given by Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, to the female members (Lajna) of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community on the occasion of the UK Annual Convention held on 26th July 2008. In earlier times, women were deprived of their rightful status. Even amongst Muslims, who have […]