Women across the country are having their civil rights blatantly violated while in police custody. On the morning of April 25, Sumaya Hamadmad, a research scientist at Ohio State University, was ...

Daisy Khan has devoted her career to fighting Islamophobia, uplifting women and building bridges between Muslims and other faith groups. In her work, she has often confronted bias against women in ...

(RNS) — The book pushes back on stereotypes of Muslim women being oppressed and subservient, and instead highlights stories of prominent rulers who influenced Islamic civilization. (RNS) — In “Queens ...

Our knowledge of women’s place in pre-Islamic Arab society is limited, but the Quran evidently called for some improvements. It condemned, for instance, the live burial of unwanted newborn girls – and ...

The motto of the United Nations is “peace, dignity and equality on a healthy planet”. Clearly the present state of the planet is in direct contrast to the UN's motto. The saddest and most disturbing ...

The National Commission for Women (NCW) has recommended comprehensive codification of Muslim personal laws, calling for an end to fragmented practices and full alignment with the principles of gender ...

On Saturday, nearly 20,000 supporters of the Islamist organization Hefazat-e-Islam rallied in the streets of Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, to protest, among other issues, proposed government reforms to ...

CASABLANCA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Girls are "like a time bomb ready to explode and ruin the family's reputation", the Moroccan jewellery trader tells his customer as she admires a display of ...

The return of so-called “virginity tests” is one of the clearest examples of this structural violence, writes Hadia Sahibzada ...

NCW urges legislation to codify Muslim personal law, enhancing rights and protections for Muslim women in marriage and ...

NCW has urged the Centre to codify personal laws, mandate marriage registration and strengthen rights on divorce, custody, ...

The National Commission for Women recommends reforming Muslim personal laws in India to bolster Muslim women's rights, ...