A wing of the Hindu paramilitary organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) recently launched a campaign to train pregnant Indian women to instill sanskar (virtue/good action) and cultural pride in their children while still in their wombs.
A woman from Pune in the western Indian state of Maharashtra filed a complaint against her husband and in-laws for allegedly harassing her and collecting her menstrual blood for Aghori rituals before selling it, shocking many in the state.
The woman, who was not identified, lodged a first information report (FIR) detailing how her husband and his family harassed and abused her since she married him in 2019.
An article from the British online magazine Spiked revealed that a private liberal arts college in Minnesota temporarily closed and censored an art exhibition of a feminist artist after claiming some Muslim students were offended by it.
The Iranian regime is prosecuting a woman for “disrespecting” her headscarf after she was seen removing the religious garment and throwing it on the ground at a public engineers’ meeting.
A video of the woman was posted online over the weekend. The footage showed the woman, identified as Zeinab Kazempour, discarding her headscarf and throwing it on the ground as she walked out of a meeting to elect new board members of the Iran Construction Engineers Organization.
China and Iran, Afghanistan’s biggest and most powerful neighbors, have asked their mutual neighbor to end restrictions on women’s rights to education and work.
British news outlet The Guardian released a report on February 6th detailing the systemic abuse many dissidents faced at the hands of Iranian security forces amidst ongoing protests that have rocked the country.
‘They used our hijabs to gag us’: Iran protesters tell of rapes, beatings and torture by police https://t.co/kSRCxwF3Zr
After a crackdown in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam that saw more than 2,400 people arrested since February 3rd, hundreds of women have protested against the measure initiated by the Assam state government.
A group of 13 religious leaders from various denominations filed a lawsuit on January 19 in St.Louis, Missouri, challenging the state’s ban on abortion, arguing that lawmakers used their religious beliefs to pass the law and imposed those beliefs on others.
A Turkish mufti (Muslim religious scholar) was under fire from Turkish Cypriots for suggesting that women should fulfill their duty to their husbands by accepting their “invitation to bed,” believing that his statement was a sign of imported encroachment of fundamentalist Islam in their secular community.
German-Egyptian academic and political scientist Hamed Abdel-Samad declared that Islam was distorted from the beginning and was born with seeds of civil war.
