Sexuality

UPDATE: Pakistan: Transgender couple released on bail

UPDATE: Pakistan: Transgender couple sentenced to three year imprisonment; need your letters of support

Women Living Under Muslim Laws supports Shamial Raj and Shahzina Tariq who were sentenced by Lahore High Court (LHC) to three years rigorous imprisonment and Rs 10,000 fine on charges of perjury. Presently, Shahzina is imprisoned in Central Jail, Faisalabad, and Shamial in Kot Lakpath, Lahore.

UPDATE: Pakistan: Transgender couple sentenced to three year imprisonment; need your letters of support

UK: "Purity ring" schoolgirl goes to High Court

A teenage schoolgirl will appeal to the High Court on Friday to overturn a ban on her wearing a "purity ring" at school to symbolize her decision to abstain from sex before marriage.

Tanzania: Early marriages and pregnancies hinder girls' education

Women's rights activists campaign to raise the age of marriage in Tanzania

Mondiale: Le mariage religieux: Facteur potentiel de risque?

A en croire les résultats d’une étude, les 3/4 des mères célibataires se seraient mariées suite, uniquement, au rituel de la récitation de la «Fatiha».

Egypt: Egyptian court rules against university decision to ban the full face veil

The American University in Cairo revoked the privileges of a women wearing the niqab; an Egyptian court overturned the ruling.