Source/Credit: The Washington Post MIRWAH, Pakistan — Shazia Shahid, a community health educator, went to the tiny house to speak with the slight young woman about birth control. It was morning, a good time because the woman’s husband was out working. But the woman shrank behind a green veil — […]
Courtesy: BBC, Gulfnews, The Dailystar and Time Bangladesh: Out of War, a Nation Is Born JAI Bangla! Jai Bangla!” From the banks of the great Ganges and the broad Brahmaputra, from the emerald rice fields and mustard-colored hills of the countryside, from the countless squares of countless villages came the cry. “Victory […]
By TALA AL-HEJAILAN, ARABNEWS Since the turn of the 21st century, the Saudi population has grown nearly 18 percent. At present, it is estimated that Saudi Arabia’s population is expanding at a rate of 2.06 percent annually. A recent Saudi-based study shows that 34 percent of the Saudi population is […]
BBC: They helped smuggle weapons and ammunition to fighters during the revolution. Now, Libyan women have their own battle to fight – for empowerment. “We have a lot of work […]
Prime minister: Segregating genders against democratic, Jewish values; president: If a man doesn’t want to get on a bus, then he shouldn’t get on. Talkbacks (2) Both Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres championed a woman’s right to sit or appear in public spaces freely during a human […]
Istanbul (CNN) — A high-ranking Turkish government minister is calling for the speedy punishment of several police officers who were caught on a police station camera, repeatedly slapping a detained woman in the face and pulling her hair even after she had been hand-cuffed. The video showed an incident that […]
By MARIAM NIHAL | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: Modern-day marriages of convenience are becoming a trend according to many expatriates in the Kingdom. The expatriate community feels the rules of marriage […]
Awae, Cameroon — Jullienne Engono has good reason to look pleased with herself. The 49-year-old farmer has won first prize for food processing at an agricultural show in Awae town in southern Cameroon, where she sits at a stall surrounded by her stock of dried vegetables, plantain chips and biscuits, […]
New Delhi: India’s elderly who shy away from the idea of marriage for fear of legal complications, inheritance disagreements or liability of an unsuitable partner at a ripe age are finding reasons to rejoice. More and more senior citizens, no matter divorcees, widowers or widows, or just individuals, are all […]
By ARAB NEWS ALKHOBAR: The Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Haia) has started investigating allegations that a Haia member harassed and humiliated a woman doctor, Al-Madinah Arabic daily reported. “The investigation committee at the Haia has started a probe into the entire issue. We are awaiting […]
I don’t know when the breaking point came. Was it the 2010 election, in which the most prominent women on the national stage seemed to be the leaders’ wives? Was it a drip, drip, drip of Question Time panels featuring one woman alongside four men and a male presenter? Could […]
(Lajna Ima’illah is an auxiliary organisation of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community. It comprises of ladies – girls are called Nasirat. Below is an address delivered by the National President of the Lajna Ima’illah UK at the 2008 Jalsa Salana (Annual Convention) UK) By the fleeting Time. Surely, man is in […]
Busan — Gender responsive budgeting becomes important when seen in the background of unpaid but important care work done by women, say delegates to an international meet on aid effectiveness in this South Korean city. “In Africa, a majority of women spend a majority of their working hours doing chores […]
Women in Britain today are fed up and that really isn’t good news for the government. The economy is declining, yet the cost of living is rising. And it’s women who are feeling the pinch become tighter and tighter in the rise in household bills, food prices, and increases for those […]
Female doctors who have laid siege to the male bastion of the medical profession are poised to overtake their male counterparts in what a medical journal describes as a “giant leap for womankind”. Women have outnumbered men in medical schools for a decade and are set to become a majority […]
TEHRAN (FNA)- An Iran-based rights group voiced deep concern about severe violation of human rights in Camp Ashraf, the main stronghold of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization in Iraq, and urged the UN to rescue the female members of the group who have long been held captive by their […]
BEIJING – China is witnessing an increasing number of foreign women who have been cheated, kidnapped and smuggled into the country, a senior official has said. Most of these women are from rural areas in Vietnam, Myanmar and Laos. They eagerly want to find jobs in China or marry rich […]
The hospital serving the London borough of Chelsea, the smartest and most fashionable in the capital, has the highest caesarean rate in England, inviting the irresistible conclusion that its female residents are “too posh to push”. More than one third of births to women at the Chelsea and Westminster hospital, […]
By GALAL FAKKAR | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: Women account for a third of the 47,000 Saudi students on the King Abdullah foreign scholarship program in the United States, according to […]
AFP – The United Arab Emirates announced Wednesday that children of Emirati women married to foreigners could apply for citizenship once they turned 18, moving closer to giving women the same nationality rights as men Read more