The ongoing conflict in Kashmir has resulted in thousands of people dead and wounded, and according to doctors, the stress related to the conflict has had a negative impact on the fertility of women in the region<\/a>.<\/p>\n The enrollment of Muslim girls in primary schools in India is surging<\/a>, with an increase of 33% against an average increase of 5% of all girls enrolling in primary school in the 2012-2013 school year.<\/p>\n Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (LBT) women have been part of the women\u2019s movement in Indonesia in over a decade, but recently the country has seen a rise in violence and harassment\u00a0aimed at\u00a0LBT women<\/a>.<\/p>\n In Niger, cash grants replace the traditional food aid to the poorest families. 99% of the beneficiaries of the money are women<\/a>, who are then in turn responsible in determining where the money should be spend.<\/p>\n Saudi columnist Mohammad Al Shaikh posted a remark on Saudi women and prostitution in\u00a0a foreign country<\/a> on Twitter, in a debate on female unemployment and the status of women. The remark has met strong criticism in the country, with some people even asking for capital punishment.<\/p>\n Disability is still seen as a bar to motherhood in Kazakhstan<\/a>; pregnant disabled women more often get recommendations to have an abortion than receiving the care that they need.<\/p>\n The Middle East\u2019s first female speed racing team consists of 6 Palestinian women<\/a>, Muslim and Christian, who, despite the battles they faced and are facing, have big ambitions when it comes their future in (international) speed racing.<\/p>\n In Australia many Muslim women, who leave their husbands, find themselves in debt, as some institutions (Centrelink)\u00a0do not believe that truly have left their husbands<\/a>, and are just concealing their partners for financial support.<\/p>\n Hundreds of women and children flocked to hospitals in Chennai, India, after a rumour spreaded that two women had lost their limbs after applying mehendi<\/a> via a text message that went viral, and turned out to be, not surprisingly, a hoax. Mehendi is applied on the hands and\/or feet of women during festive occasions, such as the\u00a0Eid.<\/p>\n Journalist and author Fariba Nawa profiles her friend Roya Hamid, an Afghan artist<\/a>, who died earlier this year due to complications surrounding childbirth. She was in her 30s.<\/p>\n A judge in the UK has said that the marriage of a disabled Bangladeshi\u00a0woman to her cousin should be annulled<\/a>, as the woman does not understand the concept of marriage and is not able to consent to sex.<\/p>\n Controversial Egyptian tv channel Maria TV<\/em> has been on air for over a month now, tackling diverse topics such as infidelity and beauty, but still many Egyptians find the channel offensive<\/a>, but for different reasons.<\/p>\n A Canadian Muslim woman has been fired from her job, after she started to wear hijab to work<\/a>. Even though, she took the hijab off during work hours, as it was said to her that the head scarf was not part of the uniform, she still got dismissed a mere two weeks later.<\/p>\n Sarah is a Dutch-Somali girl, who was forced to marry her much older relative<\/a> while on holiday in Somalia at age 16. She recently has escaped Somalia, and her marriage<\/a>, and is now living in a women\u2019s shelter in The Netherlands, where she is now planning her future.<\/p>\n A top Malaysian lawyer encourages Muslim women to sign\u00a0pre-nuptial agreements to safeguard their rights in marriage<\/a>.<\/p>\n And finally some Ramadan and Eid related news items: Forbes<\/em> profiles Senegali Hadi, as she prepares for her Eid celebrations<\/a>, or\u00a0 Korit\u00e9 as it is generally referred to in Senegal. Women in a\u00a0remote fishing village in the Philippines have been getting together to learn more about Islam, and strenghten the unity of the town by organizing community iftars<\/a>\u00a0during the month of Ramadan. In Kolkata, India, Muslim women have broken an age-old barrier<\/a>\u00a0by joining the men in their outdoor Eid prayers, something that is recommended in Islam, but was traditionally not accepted. In Afghanistan, Nasima cannot wait until the Eid is truly over<\/a>, claiming that the Eid and Ramadan are in her part of the world \u201cjust for men\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Somali runner Samia\u00a0Yusuf Omar, who competed in the 2008 Olympics for her country, has drowned\u00a0off the coast of\u00a0Italy earlier this year.\u00a0According to an earlier profile by Al Jazeera, Samia had been looking for\u00a0a trainer in Ethiopia to compete at the London Olympics, but had met a lot of obstacles and resistance. Italian newspapers\u00a0suggest that she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/92\/2012\/08\/kyrgyz-women-300x168.jpg\")
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