Somali refugee women fear sexual abuse not only by outsiders, but in the home as well. There is currently an increasing trend in reproductive coercion, where husbands force there wives to have as many pregnancies as possible, even though the future for these children is particularly bleak, according to many women. Even though former president Saleh […]

Several of hundreds of activists have been protesting against the Moroccan “rape law“, after Amina Filali’s death on March 10. At the same time, the force behind the marriage of Amina and her rapist, Amina’s mother, says that she regrets the marriage, but that she did not really have a choice. A British Muslim juror […]

Syrian women play a central role in the revolution; the BBC features the stories and experiences of several of these activist women. Egyptian anthropologist Hania Sholkamy asks whether there will be a place in Egypt for women’s human rights in the near future. Iranian women activists say “no to war”. They fear that war will aggravate violence […]

Yesterday was International Women’s Day, and (almost) every media outlet covered “something” on women in the week leading up to it, as that is the “thing to do” on Women’s Day after all. Not all stories were very newsworthy, and many other topics I covered already recently. As such, I have left many of these articles out, but I might have missed […]

Merve Kavakçı, the Turkish female lawmaker who was thrown out of parliament because of her hijab and later even stripped of her citizenship, will be restored in her rights, according to Turkish media outlets. The details of what this may include are yet unclear. The island nation of the Maldives is in turmoil, with ongoing […]

Afghan female MP Fawzia Koofi targets Afghan presidency, even though she receives death threats for openly pursuing this goal. Her response: “We die anyway“. In Indonesia, children born either out of wedlock or out of unregistered marriages (such as temporary unions) can now claim legal ties to the father, which makes them eligible to inherit from […]

Editor’s Note: It’s been a hectic week for nearly everyone at MMW, so we apologise for not having a real post today.  Thankfully, Anneke is on the ball, so we’ll be splitting her great list of links into two posts this week.  We’ll be back to normal next week, insha’Allah. A proposed reform of the […]

Drug abuse among young women and girls in Kashmir is on the rise, but there actually is no addiction treatment program in the Valley that will actually admit female drug users. They are left on their own, often not returning to the consultations that are available to them. Two days before the one-year anniversary of the […]

February 6 is the International Day of Zero Tolerance to FGM/C (Female Genital Mutilation/Circumcision); while this is not an “Islamic” practice per definition, it affects the lives of many Muslim women and girls around the world. The UN published a report on this day that almost 2,000 African communities banned the practice in 2011. Kenyan MP and FGM survivor Sophia Abdi […]

Many Egyptians have watched the YouTube video “Message From Iranian Women to Tunisian and Egyptian Women,” which warns Egyptian and Tunisian women about their position after the revolution; the resemblance with the Iranian revolution is called “uncanny.” In Southern Lebanon, Al Akhbar visits Jamila Nasser, the mother of activist Anwar Yassine, eight years after he […]