Published December 26th, 2016 Polygamous marriages are legally recognized in Saudi Arabia, in accordance with Islamic Sharia law. (AFP/File) A cartel of eight marriage officials have formed a group on WhatsApp to propagate polygamy as a remedy to the rising number of the divorced women, widows and spinsters. Reporting […]
Channel 4 reality show ‘Married At First Sight’ sees couples matched-up by experts, get hitched on their very first meeting CREDIT: CHANNEL 4 John Bingham, social affairs editor 18 NOVEMBER 2016 • Arranged marriage could be happier than marrying for love because it removes the pressure to find the “perfect” […]
YUNUS PAKSOY@yunuspaksoy ISTANBUL Syrian children as they wait to cross the border from the northern Greek village of Idomeni to southern Macedonia in September 2015. More than 10,000 missing innocent child victims of conflicts around the world, including the Syrian civil war and the instability in Iraq and Afghanistan, are […]
Men who commit adultery could be sent to jail under a new law being debated by parliament in Cameroon. The law, which has the backing of President’s Paul Biya’s party, is expected to be approved. Currently, women can be jailed for between two to six moths for having sexual […]
Source: The Guardian Stephanie Kirchgaessner in New York The Catholic church in Pennsylvania has been accused of employing “mafia-like” tactics in a campaign to put pressure on individual Catholic lawmakers […]
By Riham Alkousaa, Julia Klaus, Ann-Katrin Müller and Maximilian Popp Julia Unkel / DER SPIEGEL Cases of sexual assault in German refugee shelters are on the rise, with women and children facing the greatest danger. Despite pleas for help from the government, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition has done little to […]
Each false atrocity bleeds into the body of evidence of other, real crimes, contaminating the truth for decades to come Robert Fisk in Beirut @indyvoices We all know the problem. […]
Lire en français (Read in French) | اقرأ المقال بالعربية (Read in Arabic) Contributing Op-Ed Writer By KAMEL DAOUD FEB. 12, 2016 Photo CreditEiko Ojala ORAN, Algeria — AFTER Tahrir came Cologne. After the square came sex. The Arab revolutions of 2011 aroused enthusiasm at first, but passions have since […]
Source: The Daily Beast When Elham Salah first began her training to be a psychological counselor, she thought that she would be helping local women cope with the effects of domestic and other gender-based violence. However, after almost three years of working at the Jiyan Foundation—a small group in Iraqi […]
Source:ET “Listen lady, if you don’t want to be whisked away to a brothel in Brussels and your three girls trafficked into pedophile rings or have their organs removed, please go back to Pakistan. Stop trying to make your way into Europe.” These were the words of British aid worker […]
Huff Post: by Taylor Pittman — According to a new study, men are more likely to be creepy than women Good news, ladies. A new study has confirmed what you’ve probably thought all along: some men can be pretty creepy. For a study titled “On the nature of creepiness,” Knox […]
Source. Independent It was no secret that Mohandas Gandhi had an unusual sex life. He spoke constantly of sex and gave detailed, often provocative, instructions to his followers as to how to they might best observe chastity. And his views were not always popular; “abnormal and unnatural” was how the […]
Source: CNN CNN)Tweet by tweet, Donald Trump could undermine the GOP’s efforts to close the gender gap, a strategy that is critical to the party’s hopes of retaking the White House in November. Miffed that an anti-Trump super PAC targeted his wife by using a racy photo of her, Trump […]
Toronto: The acquittal of former radio star Jian Ghomeshi has prompted fresh calls for a sweeping overhaul of the way Canada deals with allegations of sexual violence. Protesters stand outside of the courthouse after an Ontario judge found former Canadian radio host Jian Ghomeshi not guilty on four sexual assault charges and […]
Source: BBC Years ago, during a visit to my village in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, I heard a female relative boast that as a high-caste Brahmin, she […]
Source: Times of Malta By Laiq Ahmed Atif The status of women in Islam is an issue that is largely misunderstood in present times. Muslim women are generally viewed as […]
Source: The Washington Post By Haroon Moghul In the early 1630’s, right around the time the Puritans were beginning to build Boston, Mumtaz Mahal died in childbirth. In those days, […]
AP The New Year’s Eve attacks on women in Cologne have led to a new discussion within Germany about the treatment of women in Islamic societies. The issue has become central to the country’s heated refugee debate. By SPIEGEL Staff The Erich Gutenberg College is a trade school in Mülheim, […]
Source: Independent By Robert Fisk @indyvoices Reactions to Paris and Mali have been militaristic rhetoric brought about by ignorance and refusal to understand the injustices of the Middle East Eisenhower famously sent […]
Phin Lyman made headlines with an article about being a virgin at 18. He tells Joanna Moorhead why he wanted to encourage younger people not to rush into a sex life and his plans to stay celibate when he goes to university The Value of Virginity by Phin Lyman Joanna […]