Tens of thousands of supporters of an Islamist group rallied in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, on May 3rd to condemn proposed recommendations to ensure equal rights between men and women in the Muslim-majority nation, including ones related to property.
Iranian women continue to experience setbacks in their rights after the Iranian government not only withdrew a critical law on violence against women, but also intensified their digital surveillance on them through text messages warning them about hijab violations.
An independent Australian senator is criticized for attending an event where she claimed that women in Iran “have a voice“ and accused the West of spreading propaganda against the Islamic Republic.
A senior Taliban official who expressed support for reversing the ban on girls and women's education in Afghanistan appears to have been forced to flee the country amid fears of arrest.
Cases of forced marriages have been worsening in Afghanistan since the Taliban took over the country following the withdrawal of US-led NATO forces in 2021, with many women being forced to be married even when the Taliban supposedly banned forced marriages just months after seizing power.
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An Iranian dissident and musician became a target of an assassination plot by the Iranian regime, which ultimately failed, an international Iranian news outlet has learned.
An Iranian woman went viral on social media after she had a confrontation with a cleric, who berated her for not wearing a hijab at an airport in the Iranian capital, Tehran, where the woman angrily tore off his turban and wore it like a scarf in an act of protest.
The Taliban’s supreme leader issued a new order where new residential buildings in Afghanistan are constructed without windows looking onto "places usually used by women,” adding that existing windows with such views should be blocked to prevent "obscene acts.”
The first Sharia court was established in the United Kingdom in 1982. Today, around 85 Islamic councils operate in the country, making it the “Western capital” of Sharia courts.
A Dutch court sentenced a woman to 10 years in prison after she was convicted of crimes against humanity for keeping a Yazidi woman as a slave after joining the Islamic State (IS) in Syria.
