Three Dawoodi Bohras in Australia are facing a Supreme Court trial for having carried out female circumcision on at least two minor girls.
Police officials in Karnataka recently registered a case of abduction and rape against Hindu seer Ramachandrapura, aka Raghaveshwara Bharathi.
Most Muslim women in India dismiss triple talaq, polygamy and child marriage, found a new survey, which was conducted by a women’s rights organization.
Citing Koranic verses, Islamic State reinstates sex slavery in regions of Iraq and Syria, using rape as a recruiting tool for young militants.
In cases of family violence in Australia, religious groups should not be allowed to endorse the idea that men are superior to women, heard an inquiry.
A well-known rabbi in Israel, who was accused by ten women of sexual abuse over an extended period, blamed forced confessions for his arrest.
The Satanic Temple filed a lawsuit at the federal court only a month after it said that it would use religious liberty laws to promote its own tenets.
Young girl who left Jehovah’s Witnesses after learning of the religion’s alleged failure to shield vulnerable women recently exposed them in a speech.
Human rights groups are urging Indonesia to stop the discriminatory and invasive virginity tests mandated to be undergone by female military recruits.
The veil once again figures in the culture war in Egypt with a photo of a woman who got a black eye after taking off her hijab going viral on Facebook.