The United Nations and various human rights groups and activists strongly condemned a new measure by the Taliban regime to further suppress women’s rights in Afghanistan after it introduced a new, draconian law forbidding women from showing their faces or even speaking when outside of their homes.
After Tajikistan banned the use of hijab last June, with the country’s president calling it an “alien garment,” the Muslim-majority, Central Asian nation is set to tighten its rules on Islam, with the ex-Soviet republic forbidding Tajik women from wearing “black clothes” and Tajik men from sporting long or bushy beards.
A shocking new research on the prevalence of violence against women in Afghanistan reveals that the cases of more than 300 women being killed by men since the Taliban took over in 2021 following the withdrawal of the US-led military coalition from the country are just the “the tip of the iceberg” when it comes to the true scale of gender-based violence in Afghanistan.
Beauty salons, which once provided Afghan women with safe space following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in 2021 after American-led coalition forces pulled out of the country, were outlawed since 2023, forcing many beauticians and their clients underground.
An Iranian woman and a mother of two was left paralyzed after being shot by Iranian police over an alleged violation of the regime’s mandatory hijab laws.
The Iraqi parliament is proposing changes to the country’s family and marriage laws, which would reportedly give more power to Muslim clerics on family and marriage matters and would even open the doors to legalize marriage for children as young as nine years old, with women’s right activists and organizations saying the proposals would “legalize child rape.”
A young female artist in Iran was arrested for singing in public spaces without a hijab, which violates both the Islamic Republic’s mandatory hijab law and bans on singing in public.
Iran's security forces have arrested Zara Esmaeili, a young Iranian woman whose videos of singing in public went viral. In Iran, it is illegal for women to sing or dance in public. pic.twitter.com/bMOQLH4fb2
For the first time in Australia’s history, a mother was jailed under the country’s forced marriage law after she allegedly coerced her daughter into a marriage that led to her murder.
An Afghan mother forced her daughter into marriage. Six weeks later the 21-year-old ended up dead https://t.co/OTiE7qiulp
Uzbekistan is planning to outlaw cousin marriages, blaming the phenomenon for rising birth defects among newborns in the Central Asian nation of 35 million people.
#Uzbekistan Set To Ban Cousin Marriages, Citing Birth Defects As Main Reason
Half the women in Pakistan are married to their cousins: Highest in the worldhttps://t.co/wlwpQPEjKR
A beach in Montenegro made history after announcing plans to open a beach exclusively for women who wear hijabs and burkinis. This would make it the first beach in the Adriatic Sea to cater exclusively to Muslim women.