Mali has adopted a new family law, which is actually a step back for the position of women in this predominantly Muslim country. According to this new law, women have to obey their husbands and men are head of the households.
After her retirement, Prof. Hasnath Mansur committed herself to the improvement of the lives of Muslim women in India. Poverty, not religion, is the reason that so many Muslim women have not had education, she claims.
Up to three-quarters of Kyrgyz brides are married as a result of what is called “bride kidnapping,” and in many cases, without the consent of the bride. The practice is now illegal, but hardly any case has made it to the court room.
In South Africa, some border officials have had some ”incidents” with hijab wearing women recently. The women claim that they do not have any problem with taking the hijab off in order to be able to check the identity, but will only do so in a proper setting and that was something the officials did not provide.
While preparing for her morning prayers, an 89-year-old Tajik woman was attacked by a wolf in her own backyard. She lived to tell the story, but wolves are a big problem this time of the year in parts of the Central Asian country.
Spiegel features an article on the Turkish glossy Alâ with the title: “Vogue of the Veiled.” Always good to know that there are men out there who know exactly what women need in a magazine!
Fifteen Muslims in the USA won a conditional dismissal of charges after the amusement park disturbance that they caused, when the women were told that they could not go on some rides with their hijabs on.
Pakistani teenager “Mariam” won her case against her father, who sexually abused her over the course of several years. This is the first public incest case in the country, and her story has inspired a report on incest victims in the country. (more…)
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