Friday Links | June 3, 2011

• Activists have demanded the authorities in Egypt prosecute anyone responsible for subjecting protesters to alleged virginity tests earlier this year.

• Al Jazeera interviews Lamees Dhaif about her career and censorship of journalists.

• On Mauritania’s young women who voluntarily resort to dangerous methods to gain weight.

• On the “colony of wives” left behind in Canada.

• A judge has given a Kenyan high school the last chance to respond to a suit by a Muslim student who is seeking court orders to force the school administrators to allow her wear a hijab.

• Militancy has closed skill development centers in Pakistan that train women in marketable skills to help them earn a living.

• On Kashmir’s “half-widows,” women whose husbands have disappeared in the conflict with India.

• A hilariously bad article on how Muslim women are “oppressed and happy.” Ugh.

• Facing mounting criticism, the Badminton World Federation announced that it was scrapping a rule that would have forced women to wear skirts or dresses in elite competition. More here.

• Three Muslim women in Dabra, India, committed suicide because they could not earn a living while their husbands are in custody.

• Deustche Welle highlights a few entrepreneurial Muslim women and their clothing companies.

• The Financial Times reviews Leila Ahmed’s new book.

• The Australian profiles a predominately-Muslim women’s football team.

• TwoCircles.net profiles Dr. Mehrunnisa, the founder President of Association of Muslim Women Associations in Ahmedabad, India.

• In Australia, Victoria’s Equal opportunity and human rights commissioner Helen Szoke has said that airing the burqa issue threatens the safety of Muslim women.

• The Oregonian profiles me!

• The Guardian highlights the work of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain.

• Hayat Sindi is the Saudi scientist who’s changing the world.

If there’s any news about Muslim women from this week, feel free to leave links in the comments!