The United Nations official leading the fight against sexual violence in times of conflict today voiced concern over reports that women and girls fleeing famine in Somalia were being raped or abducted and forced into marriage by bandits and other armed groups as they tried to reach refugee camps in Kenya. “During the long and [...]
CAIRO: In a new indication that sexual violence is not restricted to how one dresses in Egypt, a fully-veiled woman was kidnapped and gang-raped for an entire day in Giza. Police arrested five men and have charged them with kidnapping, rape and robbery. Investigators are looking for another three suspects allegedly involved in the crime. [...]
YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia: Perhaps surprisingly, women’s issues have become a top priority on the major political and theological agendas of the Indonesian Mujahideen Council (MMI). MMI is a radical Muslim umbrella group alleged to have links to Al Qaeda and Jemaah Islamiyah, a militant organization in Southeast Asia which has initiated a series of violent attacks [...]
CAIRO: Marwa Rakha is a 36-year-old, middle-class Egyptian girl who has managed, over the past 15 years, to make three career shifts. In 1996, she graduated from Ain Shams University, majoring in English literature. Her first job was as a receptionist at an oil company, but shortly after she embarked on a career in marketing [...]
On Friday, Thailand elected the country’s first female prime minister after more than half of the parliament backed Yungluck Shinawatra. She now has to be formally approved by Thailand’s king before she is officially allowed to take office. Shinawatra will be the country’s 28th prime minister. She won 296 votes in the nearly 500-member parliament. [...]
LONDON and CAIRO: International music star Beyonce has sparked controversy in Egypt. She has claimed in a recent interview with Harper’s Bazaar UK that she helped create a mini-uprising during a recent show in the country. According to the star singer, she left the “menfolk less than pleased.” “There were a lot of women in [...]
TEHRAN: Outside the prison walls of ward 350, in the IRI – Islamic Republic of Iran’s Evin Prison, a group of brave demonstrators hold placards and pictures of their loved ones who are part of a hunger strike. The demonstrators are mostly women – Iranian mothers, family and friends who have chosen to publicaly defend [...]
Two Bahraini women activists imprisoned and tortured for their involvement in pro-reform protests are on a hunger strike to demand their freedom, Amnesty International said on Wednesday. Roula al-Saffar, head of the Bahrain Nursing Society, and Jalila al-Salman, vice-president of the Bahrain Teacher’s Association (BTA), have been held for several months near the capital city, [...]
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia is reportedly moving very slowly on replacing male workers with female employees at lingerie stores across the conservative Gulf kingdom. According to workers in the country, the new regulations will create staff problems and would leave to a loss of customers. However, women in the country have told Bikyamasr.com that it is [...]
As a human rights worker I am used to hearing shocking stories. However, a recent spate of gang-rapes and sexual assaults in Iran highlights increasing violence against women in a country where women’s rights are already under extreme pressure. Most disturbing of all is the response of Iranian officials to a series of up to [...]
The United Nations and its partners are promoting the use of all possible means of communication, including social networking, blogs and even flash mobs, to get the message out on the benefits of breastfeeding beyond clinics and delivery rooms to the wider public. Breastfeeding is directly linked to reducing the death toll of children under [...]
CAIRO: Helping drive the January revolution in Egypt were women: young, old, married, single, mothers, daughters and sisters. Their contribution to the cause could not be overstated. They were in Cairo’s Tahrir Square in droves, creating the change that had eluded Egypt for decades. It was not just a man’s world on the streets. Now, [...]
The United Nations committee tasked with ensuring compliance with the global treaty to end discrimination against women today noted that there has been progress towards improving the lot of women in some countries, but discriminatory practices continued to limit their human rights.During its 49th session, the Committee on the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination [...]
BEIRUT: In 1776, the First Lady of the United States, Abigail Adams, wrote a letter to her husband John and to Congress, imploring her countrymen not to overlook women’s interests. “Remember the ladies,” she urged, adding with considerable defiance: “If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies we are determined to foment [...]
CAIRO: A Sudanese court sentenced a singer and a musician to 20 lashings each for inappropriate dancing during a party she performed at in the capital city Khartoum. The singer, who was not named in reports, was fined 200 Sudanese pounds and the musician 100 pounds after being convicted of “obscene dancing and singing” after [...]
DUBAI: Women are pushing forward on gaining more rights within their respective societies across the Islamic world, professor Amina Jamal of Ryerson University in Canada said at a seminar on Islam. She said that Muslim women are gaining more acceptance in entering a broader range of opportunities and are working for their rights through the [...]
With an exceptional shooting effort, Canada beat Egypt 99-54 at the FIBA under-19 women’s world championships to move into a tie atop their group. Canada shot an impressive 55 percent from the field and dominated the Egyptians throughout the game. It also out rebounded Egypt 35-18. Egypt was only able to must 37 percent shooting [...]
LONDON: Belgium has become the second European country to ban the niqab, the Islamic veil that covers a woman’s face, citing security concerns. The move has been met with widespread criticism from Muslim groups, who say it is another Islamophobic crackdown on one’s beliefs. France banned the niqab earlier this year. According to approximations, there [...]
Public voting is under way in a United Nations contest aimed at finding the best advertising campaign to promote awareness in Europe about the battle to defeat gender-based violence, which affects more than two out of every three women worldwide. More than 2,700 entries from 40 European countries – prepared by both creative professionals and [...]
BOSTON, Massachusetts: Should women drive or not drive? That is the question many in Saudi Arabia are asking today. When Manal Al-Sharif posted a video of herself driving on YouTube and launched her Women2Drive campaign on Facebook, she drew the eyes of the world yet again to the status of Saudi women. Driving is only [...]
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