Halima Aden, a 19-year-old Somali-American became the first contestant in the Miss Minnesota beauty pageant to compete wearing a hijab and a burkini. 2M, a Moroccan television broadcaster, apologized for airing a segment that advised women on how to use makeup to cover up signs of domestic violence. SheFighter is the first self-defense academy for […]

Haela Kalawi is a Syrian mother, faced all kinds of difficulties during the Syrian Civil War. But she found empowerment through work. The Turkish government has rolled back on a bill that would indefinitely suspend the sentences of men who had sex with underage girls, provided that they married them afterwards, Amaiya Zafar is a […]

Zainab Salbi, An Iraqi American women’s right activists, has a new project. She will be travelling around the world to discover the third gender revolution, and stories about ISIS. The Zainab Salbi Project will be premiering on The Huffington Post. Despite the hopes raised by the Arab Spring five years ago, women in the Arab […]

Ilhan Omar, a 34-year-old, hijab-wearing Muslim-American woman, has become the United States’ first Somali-American legislator after winning a seat in the Minnesota House of Representatives. A group of women in Jordan are defying gender roles for a career on the road. While it’s not easy working in a male-dominated sector, the country’s female taxi drivers […]

Two teenage girls in Morocco face up to three years in jail on homosexuality charges after they were caught kissing. According to Article 489 of the Moroccan Penal Code, any person who ‘commits an unnatural act’ with an individual of the same sex may be sentenced to six months to three years of imprisonment. In […]

Yusra Mardini, an 18 years old refugee from Syria nearly died in the Mediterranean after fleeing her country. Today, she is getting ready to compete at the Olympics as part of the refugee team. A doctor who carried out female genital mutilation (FGM) on a 13-year-old girl who later died from her injuries has been […]

Amid all the violence happening in Iraq, a workshop at a Californian University aims at building a working group consisting of women within the Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education to increase the number of women in leadership roles in Iraqi universities. Egypt’s National Council for Women launched last month a media campaign under the slogan […]

Saudi Arabia announced it will be sending four female athletes to Rio Olympics. It follows separate release about male squad amid ongoing sensitivity about the issue in the Gulf kingdom. Indian Muslim women defy tradition and men to be judges. The year-long program aims to produce a steady stream of female “Qadis” across India. She […]

Photography Project Lets Young Afghan Girls Share Their View of the World. Most of these students have never held a camera. When Islamic State stormed her town, Layla Mohammed fled, but she is now back and determined to rebuild against the odds. Mohammed is breaking boundaries in Syrian town freed from Islamic State. In a […]

Software engineer Mezbeen and social activist Farah Usmani were among the scores of women who scripted history on Thursday by stepping inside the prestigious Eidgah of Aishbagh in Lucknow‎, an “only for men” venue. Wearing “burqinis,” a modest piece of swimwear used by some Muslim women, to a public pool has now become illegal in […]