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April 3, 2012
Tribal leaders in Liberia in Western Africa have threatened a local journalist with female genital mutilation (FGM) after […]
April 3, 2012
An Afghan family in Østerbro, Denmark, trapped their daughter for three days so she could be forcibly married […]
April 3, 2012
Research undertaken by ComRes for the BBC has found that nearly one in five – 18 per cent […]
April 3, 2012
Sessions to encourage men to help stop female genital mutilation (FGM) will be held in Bristol, it is […]
April 3, 2012
An Iraqi woman was brutally beaten in El Cajon, California, and died from her injuries. Police are seeking […]
April 3, 2012
The fate of a Pakistani Hindu woman who claims she was kidnapped, forcibly converted to Islam and married […]
April 3, 2012
The Dutch government has agreed to tighten up the laws on marriage in the hope of reducing forced […]
April 3, 2012
A court in Germany decided to resolve a dowry dispute between two Turkish families in accordance with the […]
April 3, 2012
In Kenya, married women who escaped female genital mutilation are being threatened to undergo it, a report has […]
March 28, 2012
Azza El Garf, a prominent figure in the Freedom and Justice Party, the political wing of the Islamist […]
March 28, 2012
About 400 women and girls being held in Afghanistan for “moral crimes”, and they rarely found support from […]
March 27, 2012
The BBC reports that advocates for Muslim women’s rights in the UK frequently receive hate mail, harassment and […]
March 26, 2012
In Canada, a bookstore has “sold out” of a controversial marriage guide that advises Muslim men on how […]
March 26, 2012
Waving black flags, thousands of Tunisians shouted slogans on Sunday chanting “the people want a Caliphate” and demanding […]
March 26, 2012
Egyptian Islamists, who control the recently elected parliament, are on track to consolidate their hold over politics after […]