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June 8, 2009
Saudi Arabia’s first woman cabinet minister cannot appear on television without permission, a newspaper quoted her as saying […]
June 6, 2009
Several international feminist organizations have criticized President Obama’s recent statement on the veil: France’s group “Ni Putes ni […]
June 5, 2009
Lord Tebbit, an influential former British cabinet member, has expressed his strong dissatisfaction with the option of using […]
June 5, 2009
A forced marriage has been prevented by law for the first time in Kirklees (UK): a new law […]
June 3, 2009
The introduction of stringent family reunification measures in Denmark has halved the number of young women from immigrant […]
June 2, 2009
Nearly 70,000 young Swedes feel they aren’t able to freely choose whom they want to marry, according to […]
June 2, 2009
Rahila Muhibi, a native of Afghanistan and a recent college graduate in North Carolina, has no intentions of […]
June 1, 2009
Oklahoma governor Brad Henry has signed House Bill 1834, which makes it a felony to engage in female […]
May 31, 2009
A “twisted sense of values” led an Ottawa, Canada man to murder his sister and the man she […]
May 30, 2009
Four out of ten Somali and Ethiopian women who give birth in the Netherlands have been genitally mutilated. […]
May 27, 2009
A clinic in Barcelona, Spain, is offering reconstructive surgery of the clitoris to women who have been circumcised. […]
May 27, 2009
In the troubled east and south of Afghanistan, Taliban are burning girls’ schools and throwing acid in the […]
May 27, 2009
A Moroccan girl who was reportedly kidnapped by her family has refused to testify against them, a Barcelona, […]
May 27, 2009
A man has been jailed for five years for raping his teenage bride who was trapped and unhappy […]
May 26, 2009
Responding to threats from the Taliban, at least 10 girls’ schools have shut down near Kunduz in northern […]