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Tunisia's single mothers still struggle to overcome stigma

Author: Perrine MassyPosted February 2, 2016

The situation of unmarried mothers, faced with a delicate dilemma and deprived of rights, makes a telling allegory for modern Tunisia — a country increasingly liberated but that still promotes conservative values.

#February6th: The International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (#FGM): Celebrating Victories

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Aceh Prepares to Enforce Broader Sharia Criminal Code, With Stiffer Penalties

Updated at 10:40 a.m. ET on 2015-04-30

Sharia police in Indonesia’s westernmost province, Aceh, have begun educating the public about a broadening of the Islamic penal code set to go into effect in October this year.

Behaviors punishable under the new regulations – known as Qanun Jinayat – include adultery, rape, sexual harassment, homosexual acts, and falsely accusing others of adultery.

Indonesia's highest Islamic clerical body issues fatwa proposing death penalty for people caught having gay sex

Indonesia's most prominent Islamic clerical body has issued a fatwa proposing a host of punishments for

Meet Estayqazat, Syria’s online feminist movement

Estayqazat, a Syrian feminist movement, seeks to empower women to accept and freely talk about their sexuality, which is a taboo subject in Syria's patriarchal society.

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CSW 57 Panel - Global Campaign to Stop Stoning: Why Stoning Is Violence Against Women

On March 8^th, 2013, Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) and its partner organisations gathered in New York during the 57^th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) to launch The Global Campaign to Stop Stoning Women.

Protesters demand male brothels for women in Turkey

In Turkey, a women's rights group has petitioned parliament for the creation of a male brothel. The call has heated up the discussion over whether the state should run brothels at all.

Afghanistan: Woman killed for “dishonouring” family

The woman, who has two children, was shot dead on Monday 22 April by her father in front of a crowd of about 300 people in the village of Kookchaheel, in the Aabkamari district of Badghis province in north-western Afghanistan.

Pakistan's once-ridiculed transgender community fight elections for first time

Naina Lal, 28, is one of a handful of candidates from Pakistan's "transgender" community standing in national and provincial elections on Saturday. Known as "hijra", a catch-all term for transexuals, hermaphrodites and transvestites but usually indicating someone born male identifying as a woman, they have faced discrimination and ridicule for centuries. Living apart, they have traditionally earned a living as dancers, circus performers, sex workers and beggars.

Across the World: A Girl’s Right to Learn Without Fear

Girls are especially vulnerable to rape, exploitation, coercion and discrimination perpetrated by students and teachers. ‘A girl’s right to learn without fear’ looks at the issues and presents solutions which are drawn from existing policy examples, as well as global civil society campaigns, international instruments and the voices of girls themselves. This reports surveys regions as diverse as Sub-Saharan African, Asia and the Pacific, Middle East and North Africa, Latin American and the Caribbean, Europe and Central Asia as well as North America.