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25/8/2015

First Saudi women register to vote

Al Jazeera | 20 Aug 2015 10:53 GMT

Dozens of women are expected to contest Saudi Arabia's municipal elections for the first time in the country's history.

17/8/2015

Farkhunda murder: Afghan court quashes death sentences

11/8/2015

With Her Father On Death Row, Afghan Mother Attempts To Put Decade Of Incest, Abuse Behind Her

By Malali Bashir

August 10, 2015

You might forgive Khatera, a grown mother of two, her belief in monsters.

After all, she says, one haunted her childhood. She recalls how, on good days, he lashed out at her or her long-suffering mother, beating them or simply reminding them that no one cared whether they lived or died. On bad days, she says, he inflicted indescribable pain while beating her to silence her muffled cries. On worse days, family members branded her a liar and insisted she keep her talk of any "monster" among them to herself.

3/8/2015

UN should recognise Shingal massacres as genocide & feminicide

Exactly one year ago, gangs of the so-called Islamic State (IS) tried to carry out genocide in the Southern Kurdish (Northern Iraqi), mostly by Yazidis inhabited city Shingal/Sinjar. On 3 August 2014, IS aimed to occupy Shingal by massacres and ethnic cleansing in the villages around. According to numbers of the UN, due to the massacres that started on 3 August, 5 thousand Kurdish Yazidis got killed, 7 thousand girls and women got kidnapped like trophies, enslaved by IS gangs and sold in slavery markets. Even though some of the women were able to escape, a lot of women committed suicide for escaping from this atrocity. But still thousands of women remain in the hands of IS.

28/7/2015

Afghan shelter provides security for abused women

Kabul, Afghanistan

Afghan women who have suffered violence and trauma at the hands of their families, find secret reprieve in shelter.

23/7/2015

Should India review Muslim divorce law?

Women's groups condemn "all at once" declaration by Muslim men known as "triple talaq" to divorce their wives.

22/7/2015

India arrest 16 for beheading woman for 'witchcraft'

22 July 2015

Police in India say they have held 16 people in connection with the killing of a woman accused of practising witchcraft.

20/7/2015

Meet the Badass Afghan Politician Who Ran Against Her Husband and Won

By Natasha Noman

July 17, 2015

Shukria Barakzai has endured a miscarriage from Taliban attacks, a secretly polygamous husband, street beatings by extremists, an aggressive opposition campaign from that same husband and multiple assassination attempts. Just one of these would stop most normal people in their tracks.

20/7/2015

A Ramadan That Uyghurs Will Never Forget

By Bruce Pannier

July 15, 2015

The end of one of the most bizarre periods of Ramadan the Uyghur people have ever known is drawing to a close. The Turkic Muslim people living in the area of western China now called Xinjiang were forced by Beijing to forego the month's obligatory fasting, the latest intrusion by authorities into the Uyghur way of life. But at the same time, the plight of the Uyghurs has arguably been receiving the most international attention, well, ever.

15/7/2015

Domestic violence in Turkey reaches boiling point

A series of violent attacks against women in Turkey has put the entire country on edge - with little hope for change. Could one woman's act of defiance begin to challenge an established culture of patriarchy?