Finally, there’s relief for Muslim women, a new nikahnaama has come up that’ll significantly empower the Shia women.
According to this new nikahnaama, the women would be able to initiate divorce, which was forbidden previously in Islam.
In...
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The Taliban Movement was a Sunni Islamist fundamentalist movement that successfully ruled most of Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001. The Taliban government has been severely condemned for violating the human rights of women.
They were compelled to...
Clandestinely filmed pornographic DVDs are hitting markets and internet sites of Iran consequent upon which, Esmail Ahmadi Miqadam, the chief of Iranian police has blamed the shop owners by saying that they are intentionally fixing the spy cameras in the...
Women for Women International (WFWI) is an organization, which a young Iraqi American woman, Zainab Salbi, started in 1992 to help women in conflict zones, recover their lives. It played an active role in serving the women victims of war in Croatia and...
The statements of an international women’s rights group seem true; the condition of Afghani women is not satisfactory even after the fall of Taliban. In 2001 when Taliban trembled, the women were hoping of an independent and pleasant life, but it is...
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Sharon Chadha has written for various publications, including RUSI Journal, the publication of the Royal United Services Institute, the world’s oldest security and defense think tank in London.
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