Saudi authorities have ordered banks to separate female and male workers at their headquarters in a new setback for women's rights in the conservative kingdom.
New website from the Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto addresses the "missing page in a vibrant history of Iranian women activism since the 1970s...the struggle of women political prisoners."
Le CICADE [Centre pour l'initiative citoyenne et l'accès au(x) droit(s) des exclus] vient d'éditer un guide juridique consacré au droit de la famille des femmes françaises et maghrébines.
UN officials are urging the authorities in Bangladesh to clarify the fate of a UN human rights expert prevented from leaving the country since mid-May.
Suad Fathalla, the victim of a harassment campaign since speaking on Al Hurra television about the experience of ending her abusive marriage, has lost custody of her three young children and the right to remain in the apartment they currently share.
Approximately 50 per cent of the nation’s population is female. Then why after six sessions of Majlis elections, we still have only two females representing Omani women in the Majlis?
A temporary marriage, or "sigheh," refers to a Shiite Muslim tradition under which a man and a woman sign a contract that allows them to be "married" for any length of time, even a few hours.
