theguardian: by Kishwar Desai — For anyone who maintains that women are raped because of the way they dress or the way they look, the image of two thin and scrawny teenagers hanging from a mango tree, gang raped and murdered by their neighbours in Budaun, Uttar Pradesh, provided a […]
theguardian: by Kishwar Desai — For anyone who maintains that women are raped because of the way they dress or the way they look, the image of two thin and scrawny teenagers hanging from a mango tree, gang raped and murdered by their neighbours in Budaun, Uttar Pradesh, provided a […]
PolicyMic: by Marcie Bianco — “Does this look like LOVE TO ANY ONE OF YOU?” That was the rhetorical question Angela Bower posed to her friends and family after posting photos allegedly showing the brutal beating she took from her ex-partner. The Tennessee woman said she took to her Facebook page not […]
The Washington Post: by Terrence Mccoy — In a town in western Ireland, where castle ruins pepper green landscapes, there’s a six-foot stone wall that once surrounded a place called the Home. Between 1925 and 1961, thousands of “fallen women” and their “illegitimate” children passed through the Home, run by the Bon […]
The NewYork Times: by Nitahsa Tiku — So what if, instead of trying to guess at what might get girls interested in technology, we looked at what’s already on their screens? While parents often worry about recreational “screen time,” some educators now believe that gaming could be a way to […]
http://www.cnn.com/video/api/embed.html#/video/world/2014/05/30/pkg-udas-india-gang-rape-hanging.cnn By Harmeet Shah Singh and Faith Karimi, CNN updated 6:29 AM EDT, Sat May 31, 2014 Katra village, India (CNN) — Mourners sat on mud floors at a village in […]
Epigraph: On account of this, We prescribed for the children of Israel that whosoever killed a person — unless it be for killing a person or for creating disorder in […]
Pakistan Today: Five Muslim women have made it to Forbes’ list of the 100 most powerful women published online on Wednesday. Prime Minister of Bagladesh Shiekh Hasina Wajid has been […]
Huff Post: by Yasmine Hafiz — Maya Angelou spent her life as an unstoppable force for art, justice, and love. Her writing touched on themes of struggle and sadness, and often drew on her faith as a source of strength to find beauty and perseverance in hard times. As we […]
Huff Post: by Rev. Dr. Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite— The war on women is literally a war and it is going on all around us, all day long and all night long, all the time; it is a war of epidemic proportions. It is a war fought on the bodies of […]
A husband who strangled to death his pregnant wife two weeks after police arrested him for threatening to kill her with a hammer was sentenced to life imprisonment today. Mohammed Badiuzzaman, 34, pleaded guilty to murdering mother-of-three Sabeen Thandi at the Old Bailey earlier this month. Before the killing he […]
By Fozia Khawaja, Edmonton A unique Interfaith Symposium held by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Women’s Association Edmonton, Canada It is hard to believe that faith can provide solutions to the bullying […]
We.news: by Hajer Naili — (WOMENSENEWS)–On a single day last September, 9,641 victims of domestic violence tried and failed to find help, shows a March 6 study by the National Network to End Domestic Violence. Sixty percent of their unmet requests were for emergency housing. “The largest unmet need was for […]
Bio. — Aside from their gender, female leaders don’t have much else in common. Some have brought peace to troubled lands, while others have strewn discontent. Some have been competent or brilliant, others inept or corrupt. They come from political positions ranging from arch-conservative to ultra-leftist and represent all the […]
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 and his weaning takes thirty months, till, when he attains his full maturity and reaches the age of forty years, […]
Global Post: by Jess Zimmerman — Just in time for Mother’s Day, Save the Children has released its annual State of the World’s Mothers report, which includes a list and a map of the best and worst places to be a mother. The report collates maternal health, infant mortality, educational opportunity, per […]
Epigraph: And We 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 […]
Epigraph: And help one another in righteousness and piety; but help not one another in sin and transgression. And fear Allah; surely, Allah is severe in punishment. (Al Quran 5:3) […]
Huff Post: by Heather Mcllvaine— “Clergy are not open to reform experiences which are pro-women,” wrote Solanki. “Muslim women in Pakistan enjoy more legal protection than Indian Muslim women.” MUMBAI, India (RNS) Khatoon Shaikh had no formal education, never worked outside the home and lived in the kind of neighborhood […]
راشد احمد بلوچ rashid_blouch@yahoo.com اس واقعہ کو تاریخ کی آنکھ نے آج سے چودہ سو سال قبل دیکھا اور آنی والی نسلوں کی بھلائی اور رہنمائی کے واسطے ہمیشہ ہمیشہ کے لئے اپنے دامن میں محفوظ کر لیا ۔رسول خداﷺ کا قافلہ صحرا ئے عرب کی بے کراں وسعتوں کو […]