29th March 2024 Guidance regarding basic Islamic issues – which Hazrat Amirul Momineen, Khalifatul Masih Vaa has given on various occasions in his written correspondence and during MTA programmes – is […]
Munavara GhauriWOMEN’S SECTION 6th February 2022 ©Shutterstock Munavara Ghauri, UK International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) was initiated by the United Nations in 2003 and is marked […]
Reem Shraiky – UKFACTS FROM FICTION 29th September 2021 Reem Shraiky, UK I was born and raised in the Middle East where I had never heard of Female genital mutilation […]
Source: voiceofbritishmuslimwomen | by Voice Of British Muslim Women | Amtul Musawar Ahmad, Walsall Time and again, erroneous acts have been perpetrated in the name of religion, when in reality it is personal and other vested interests that spur individuals to commit them. Terrorism and Islam are often shown to be […]
BBC News Navigation Image captionSudanese drinkers have had to secretly make their own alcohol until now After more than 30 years of Islamist rule, Sudan has outlined wide-reaching reforms including […]
© REUTERS – Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah Sudan will permit non-Muslims to consume alcohol and the country will strengthen women’s rights, including banning female genital mutilation (FGM), its justice minister said […]
Campaigners welcome move to criminalise those carrying out FGM, but warn it will take time to eradicate practice entirely Zeinab Mohammed Salih Fri 1 May 2020 According the UN, 87% […]
By Nick Thompson, CNN Cairo, Egypt (CNN) Summer days: They’re what childhood memories are made of, glorious afternoons of unchecked freedom to frolic with friends in the sun, unshackled from the […]
nigeria.aplus: by Kimberley Richards — More than 130 million girls and women have experienced female genital mutilation or cutting Nigeria made history by outlawing female genital mutilation. The ban falls under the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Act 2015 that was passed in Senate on May 5 and recently enacted into law. This […]
More than 125 million girls and women alive today have been cut in the 29 countries. This number excludes the countless numbers who die during the procedure. The practice is […]
Europe’s first clinic dedicated to treating women who have suffered female genital mutilation opened on Wednesday in Berlin. The Desert Flower Centre will offer both surgical and psychological care for those who have had the procedure. Led by a team of experts in gynaecological and pelvic surgery as well as […]
by Musa Okwonga Tuesday, 9 April 2013 at 12:46 pm On the last day of my Easter holidays, Dr. Phoebe Abe (or, as I know her, my mother) sat down in her living room with me and several women from Somalia, Egypt and Sudan. My mother, a GP, had for […]