After a pregnant woman in hijab was assaulted and harassed in Stockholm, Sweden, Swedish women and men took to social media wearing headscarves to show support. Last Tuesday, the Swedish Minister of Justice met with activists demanding action. A Somali woman alleges that she has been abducted, drugged and gang-raped by African Union peacekeepers; a recent […]

Last week was Eid-ul-Fitr, and for that occasion the Saudi Gazette visited a care home for elderly women, where nothing is done for the residents to make this holiday special in any way. Chicago resident Halima Qancaro, originally from Ethiopia, is also spending the Eid on her own, and she shares her remarkable and tragic […]

Every summer thousands of underage Egyptian girls are sold in (temporary) marriage by their families to Arab Gulf men. It is said that some girls have married 60 times before they turn 18. Slowly but surely Iraqi women are becoming increasingly visible and have more presence, especially in the fields of education and business, but sexual (verbal) abuse remains prevalent, […]

Turkish Sufi scholar and lawyer Ömer Tuğrul İnançer has said during an interview that the presence of visibly pregnant women in public is disgraceful. This has sparked an outcry in Turkey, and many (very pregnant) women took to the streets in some of Turkey’s major cities. The lack of refugee camps in Lebanon for Syrian refugees leaves many […]

Last Friday French police just outside of Paris clashed with hundreds of demonstrators, after police had asked a woman to remove her face veil to check her identity. The demonstrators claim that the police provoked them, and by Saturday night the riots were spreading to surrounding areas. French Interior Minister Manuel Valls has said that the government stands by the ban […]

A record number of Rohingya women and their children are fleeing Burma/Myanmar by boat, which is a very difficult journey with many hazards along the way. Female Rohingya refugees in Thailand are very vulnerable and often fall prey to human traffickers. Malala Yousufzai, the shot Pakistani schoolgirl, addressed the UN on her sixteenth birthday on July 12, […]

It is Ramadan and many news items featuring Muslim women are focused on the Holy Month. Muslim women in Florida, USA are providing local Muslim families in need with Ramadan care packages. An Islamic conference in Tanzania on Ramadan called on educated Muslim women to help other women for social development. Women spend nearly double the normal time […]

Iranian swimmer Elham Asghari swam 20 kilometres in open sea, which is a record breaking distance for Iranian women – but according to officials, her clothing was too revealing and they refused to register her record. A top female police officer, Islam Bibi, has been killed in Afghanistan’s Helmand province by unknown attackers. In Morocco, a […]

A court in Burma/Myanmar has found two Muslim women guilty of sparking sectarian violence; both are sentenced to two years in prison with hard labor. One of the women bumped into a monk earlier this year, which resulted in Buddhist monks raiding shops and homes in the region. Many Tajik marriages are arranged, but the […]

Rehana Kausar and Sobia Kamar are the first Muslim lesbians united in a civil ceremony in the UK; both women are from Pakistan and have applied for political asylum, claiming that they fear for their lives upon a return to Pakistan. A leading human rights advocate for Thai Muslims has said that the Thai government is […]