Subjecting Hindu women to Sharia courts is not justice.… Read the rest

The veil is a tool for the suppression and oppression of women.… Read the rest

Sura 40 says that those who reject the scriptures will have iron collars and chains placed around their necks, be dragged into scalding water and burnt in the fire.… Read the rest

Detox-based diets can include the use of tablets, socks, body wraps, diets, eating nettle root extract or drinking herbal infusions or “oxygenated” water.… Read the rest

She rose to prominence fighting for those most easily marginalised in Africa – poor women. … Read the rest

Across rural India, it’s easy to find people who revere sati as the ultimate demonstration of womanly honour, devotion and piety. … Read the rest

WHO study shows FGM exposes women and babies to significant risk at childbirth.… Read the rest

Hundreds of Iranian online journals have been protesting against media censorship by renaming their blogs after pro-reformist newspapers and websites that have been banned or shut down by the authorities.… Read the rest

Anyone baptised using terms such as “Creator”, “Redeemer” and “Sanctifier” would have to be re-baptised using the traditional ceremony.… Read the rest

Islamic officials seized her 15-month-old daughter from her Hindu husband, Suresh Veerappan, last month and handed the child to Revathi’s Muslim mother.… Read the rest

Foreign woman demands to use pool in international hotel, succeeds.… Read the rest

To mark international women’s day 2004, International Pen Writers in Prison Committee focused on al-Huwaider.… Read the rest

Because he tells a Jewish woman she will go to hell.… Read the rest

Article 37 of Maryland’s constitution provides that “no religious test ought ever to be required as a qualification for any office of profit or trust in this State, other than a declaration of belief in the existence of God”… Read the rest

The use of cultural evidence risks a dangerous balkanization of the criminal law.… Read the rest

On NPR’s Science Friday in 1996, the rising popularity of pseudoscience and the importance of critical thinking.… Read the rest

Bridget Prentice and Jasvinder Sanghera discuss on Woman’s Hour.… Read the rest

Cites sorrow and anger, demands apology for insult to honour of prophet. … Read the rest

Service providers cannot help them because they’re minors and runaways. … Read the rest