Source: RT Muslim women have ridiculed MAC Cosmetics for posting a makeup tutorial video showing women how to look “glamorous” for suhoor – a pre-dawn meal consumed before fasting during […]
By Dr. Lutf ur Rehman. Nashville, TN Breaking News: Harvey Weinstein arrested for alleged rape. We are all aware of the “Me Too” movement. Basically, women are coming forward to […]
Source: CNN By Brynn Gingras, Emanuella Grinberg and Sonia Moghe, CNN New York (CNN)Harvey Weinstein is expected to surrender to New York police Friday morning on charges that he raped […]
Source: BBC News After a stranger exposed himself to her on a train, photojournalist Margaret Wroblewski created the Instagram project I Was On The Metro When…to document the accounts of […]
Source: NPR BY SASHA INGBER At least six prominent defenders of women’s rights in Saudi Arabia were detained this week, six weeks before the kingdom’s ban on women from driving is […]
Source: Religion News Service By Priyadarshini Sen PUNE, India (RNS) — Wearing a single piece of unstitched cloth and a grass girdle around his waist, 8-year-old Harshal Kulkarni chants Vedic mantras. […]
By Maryam Hedayat The holy month of Ramadan is starting, the month in which Allah, the Almighty, opens His doors of mercy, forgiveness and blessings upon Muslims. This month is […]
Epigraph: And We (Allah) have enjoined on man to be good to his parents. His mother bears him with pain, and brings him forth with pain. And the bearing of him […]
Source: Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Tuesday assigned a Vatican office to concern itself with the role of women in the Catholic Church and their “equal dignity” — his latest effort to address longstanding complaints of women’s second-class status in the church. Francis approved new statutes […]
I believe every ayah is a perfect gift from Allah. So protecting the integrity of an ayah about hitting women is very important. A new episode of “That’s Messed Up” […]
Washington (CNN) New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has resigned, following a report on allegations of assault by multiple women in The New Yorker. “It’s been my great honor and […]
Source: The Washington Post By Sarah Pulliam Bailey More than 1,000 Southern Baptist women have signed an open letter to the trustees of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary that says they are “grieved by […]
Source: The Guardian Daniel Boffey in Brussels Belgian MPs are taking a major step towards the decriminalisation of abortion after a parliamentary majority emerged in favour of following France and Luxembourg […]
Source: CNN By Munachim Amah, CNN (CNN)A US-owned local radio station has been shut down for insulting women in Rwanda, authorities say. The Amazing Grace Christian Radio, a radio station that […]
Jimmy Carter: Why I believe the mistreatment of women is the number one human rights abuse 120 Women Who Changed Our World Source: MSN News BY Kara Lad MALALA YOUSAFZAI 1997-ACTIVIST […]
Source: The New York Times By AURELIEN BREEDEN Photo Newly naturalized French citizens during a ceremony in Nice in 2014. CreditEric Gaillard/Reuters PARIS — An Algerian woman’s refusal to shake hands with male officials at a French naturalization ceremony is sufficient grounds for denying her citizenship, France’s top administrative court has ruled. […]
Source: Associated Press By NASSER KARIMI and MOHAMMAD NASIRI TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A grainy video of female officers from Iran’s morality police assaulting a young woman whose headscarf only […]
Source: Time By Aryn Baker | Photographs by Lynsey Addario for TIME After spending 15 months in captivity in a run-down brothel in the Italian city of Torino, Wealth finally saw her chance to escape. The 23-year-old Nigerian had scraped together nearly 50 euros in tips from a couple of regulars and […]
Source: The Guardian By Uki Goñi in Buenos Aires Salil Shetty, Amnesty International’s secretary general, urges Argentina and others to reform draconian legislation and says human rights have deteriorated across region A demonstrator paints a slogan on the street in demand of women’s access to safe, free and legal abortion, during a […]
Book written by Lesley Hazleton, who is a British-American author whose work focuses on the vast and volatile arena in which politics and religion intersect Brief review from Amazon: In this […]