Women

An influential group of Pakistani clerics have issued a fatwa against “honor” killings...

An adviser to the European Court of Justice says companies can prohibit staff from wearing the Islamic headscarf as part of a general ban on religious and political symbols.  The tribunal is currently hearing a compensation claim from a woman who was dismissed from her job for wearing an Islamic headscarf. This is the …

A study has found that Muslim women face a double bind of religious and gender discrimination in the British society

ICE to host Imam Khomeini and the Status of Women conference

Domestic violence, sexual harassment and abuse, misogyny in all its forms – whether in the East or the West, all these diseases are alive and well in our societies.

In pre-Islamic days the Arabs, as well as non-Arabs, considered fathers to have full authority over their daughters

Women will be able to ditch their headscarves, hijabs or burkas for workouts at Haya, the female-only gym. Haya has all the usual fitness equipment including treadmills, exercise bikes and weights and it will also feature an onsite prayer room. The businessman behind the idea for the gym in Cardiff, …

A hotline set up to record of anti-Islamic physical and verbal violence in the Netherlands received 158 reports last year, according to the organization’s annual report. Most – 54 – took place in January in the wake of the attacks on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. There was a second …

Being a Muslim woman in the West at this moment in time is such a strange, dangerous, and amazing thing...

A man might feel that it should be he who should decide about family affairs, with his wife's indisputable agreement.