Holiday News| More...
 

Muslim Womens Rights

Who Speaks for Islam?

Dalia Mogahed | Posted 11.22.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Muslim Womens Rights, Sharia Law, Muslim, Gallup, Obama Cairo Speech, Barack Obama, Sharia, World News
Dalia Mogahed

From Morocco to Malaysia, Muslim respondents described their respect for much of what the West holds dear: freedom of the press, the rule of law, and transparency and accountability of government.

Read Post

Sudan: Women Sentenced To 20 Lashes For Wearing Pants

Posted 10.23.2009 | World

Read More: Sudan Trousers, Women's Rights, Women's Dress, Muslim Womens Rights, Sudan Lashes Pants, Sudan, Muslim Women's Dress, Sudan Pants, World News

Sudan sentenced two women to 20 lashes and $110 each for wearing pants, Reuters reports. According to Sudanese law, the women committed an act of inde...

Read Whole Story

What Do Muslim Women Want?

Naomi Wolf | Posted 10.05.2009 | World

Read More: Religion, Women, Queen Rania, Muslim Women, Women's Issues, Women and Politics, Muslims, Naomi Wolf, Muslim Womens Rights, Muslim, World News
Naomi Wolf

The Muslim women leaders I've spoken to do not say, "Please tell the West to save us." They are too busy making egalitarian, modernist new worlds of their own, with an Arab, and often Islamic, imprimatur.

Read Post

Afghan Women Speak Out: Malali Bashir (Part I)

Jodie Evans | Posted 07.25.2009 | World

Read More: Codepink, Afghan Women, Afghanistan, Womens Rights, Muslim Womens Rights, Taliban Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, World News
Jodie Evans

An organized judicial and law enforcement system can provide people security and a sense that they are living in their own peaceful country and not in a jungle that has no rules.

Read Post

Pakistan's Media Crucial In Fight Against Extremists

Madiha Sattar | Posted 05.24.2009 | World

Read More: Flogging, Lahore, Pakistan News, Swat, Pakistan, Pakistani Media, Womens Right, Muslim Womens Rights, Taliban, Media, World News

By Madiha Sattar, HuffingtonPost Contributor "So, it's not okay for women to be touched by male doctors but male executioners can hold hands and slap...

Read Whole Story

Saudi Human Rights Group Criticizes Religious Police For Discriminating Against Women

AP | DONNA ABU-NASR | Posted 04.23.2009 | World

Read More: Saudi Arabia, Saudi Women, Human Rights, Saudi Arabia Human Rights, Muslim Womens Rights, Womens Rights, Womens Human Rights, Middle East, Saudi Religious Police, Women's Rights, World News

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A Saudi human rights groups has strongly criticized the kingdom's religious police, judiciary and security agencies in a ...

Read Whole Story

Elderly Saudi Woman Sentenced To 40 Lashes For Mingling

CNN | Mohammed Jamjoom and Saad Abedine | Posted 04.09.2009 | World

Read More: Court, Womens Rights, Human Rights, Middle East, Sentencing, Muslim Womens Rights, Saudi Arabia, Physical Abuse, Saudi Lashes Elderly Woman, World News

A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced a 75-year-old Syrian woman to 40 lashes, four months imprisonment and deportation from the kingdom for having two ...

Read Whole Story

Let the Truth Shine

Zeyno Baran | Posted 02.15.2009 | World

Read More: Women's Rights, Women, Muslim Womens Rights, Barack Obama, Muslim World, World News
Zeyno Baran

The defense and protection of women needs to be the guiding principle for the incoming administration. Its core message must then be communicated broadly, especially to the Muslim world.

Read Post

President-elect Obama Should Engage Iranian Women Calling for Change

Soona Samsami | Posted 01.09.2009 | World

Read More: Women's Rights, Islam, Fundamentalism, Women in Iran, Women, Change in Regime, World, Women for Obama, Muslims, Iran, Muslim Womens Rights, Power, Barack Obama, World News
Soona Samsami

Iran's monopolistic, suppressive, dogmatic, misogynous, and terrorist political regime strives to preserve and expand the velayat-e-faqih (absolute rule of the clergy).

Read Post

Women Get Respect - Part 1

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 06.17.2008 | Media

Read More: Bella Abzug Leadership Institute, Rita Jensen, Anucha Browne Sanders, Women's E-News, Daisy Khan, Liz Abzug, The Washington Post, Doris Buffet, Women, Women Voters, Women and Politics, Muslim Womens Rights, Isaiah Thomas, Media News
Marcia G. Yerman

On the evening of May 21st, women in New York City had the opportunity to come out and support two events that proved achievers of the female gender were getting their due.

Read Post