The Muslim Woman

The eviction of a young Muslim girl from soccer tournament for wearing hijab has created a political uproar in Canada. Liberal MP Omar Alghabra said that it was irrational on part of the federation in asking her to stepping out of the soccer match...

Women in Lebanon are busy these days with demining stuff. Nearly seven women are clearing about one million cluster of bombs sprinkled across the south because of the 2006 Israeli offensive. These seven women have been selected from 30 applicants who.

After a younger Muslim girl's expulsion from a Quebec soccer tournament, five other teams too walked out of it. The girl, Asi was asked to move out because she was in her traditional hijab. League's spokesperson Lyes Arfa stated that the ban on...

A victim of rape in Iraq has tried to go against the social custom of suffering mutely but instead has jeopardized her life. She has openly condemned the Iraqi police of sexually molesting her. This is not the first time a criminal case has been...

The southern province of Hemland, Afghanistan, is experiencing all time internal conflict ranging between the anti-government elements and the international forces and this strife has compelled women out of the workforce back into their homes. Jamila.

Yes, this absurd news is true. The Supreme Iraqi Criminal Court has sentenced the women to death by hanging, with the executions set for March 3 in Baghdad. All charged with 'offences against the public welfare' by a government that cannot even provide...

A proposal of giving financial assistance of more than one billion USD for the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has been put forward by some policymakers in the chambers of US Congress. The Democrat Congresswoman from New York, Carolyn B....

A Pakistani female provincial minister and supporter of President Pervez Musharraf have been shot dead by an assumed Islamic militant. Zilla Huma Usman, 35, was working as a women's rights activist and had previously promoted a mini-marathon...

After the dilapidated condition of Afghanistan, which was the aftermath of war the province was left with a barren land where all hopes and aspirations of the people were buried deep into the gravel. Native women in drought hit Zabul province have...

In order to safeguard working women's right, the Parliamentarians Commission for Human Rights (PCHR) has decided to introduce a bill in the house. The proposed bill would target discrimination in wages, harassment at workplace, uncomfortable working...