It is routine work for 43 year old Helen Rawlins. For years now she finds peace saving women forced into marriages. She knows the way the cruel world acts upon their daughters. She wants a change. She might not be able to change the mentality of the..
President Bush had made the claim after US forces overran Iraq in 2003 that Iraqi women were now free and had a bright future. But seeing their condition in the country today one is forced to say the opposite is true.
During Saddam Hussain's time...
Britain is one of the few countries known for possessing higher civilian ethics and supporting human rights in the best possible way. However, quite shocking it’s to know that here too women are subjected to brutality, sometimes in the name of...
The West might rebuff it as preposterous while the East might defend it as its tradition, but arranged marriages nonetheless cannot be ruled out in the Asian culture. Marriages in these countries are more of a contract between two families and little.
A section of poor Muslim women often face the brutality of a male-dominated society. Women and girls all over the world(of all religions and nationalities)are not safe from violence and exploitation in the so called 'age of globalization and...
Women are less than cows, but yet their sexual allure is distracting Muslim males who are no less than lions. The Taliban in Afghanistan publicly thrashed women for joy. And now a mullah in Malaysia has blamed women for snatching men's sleep. Nik...
Is the western media painting a wrong picture of the women in the Arab world? Despite of contention of the politicians, scholars and women rights groups are the Arab women in reality content with their veiled existence? I think time has come for us to..
Do not compare the Burkha clad policewomen of Iraq with their counterparts in non-Islamic countries. The gender discrimination is more astounding in this country. After the US forces took over Iraq, a recruitment drive was undertaken by the Iraqi...
Sudan, the largest African nation, is reputed for violence and discrimination against women. Human rights violations against women have taken the driver's seat here. Ethnic conflicts flowing from an ill-respected cultural diversity, insurgency,...
Though women are cattle for some men, these latter are constantly disturbed and agitated by mere cows. So when I hear of Iraqi terrorists insisting on killing Christian women if they do not cover their faces in Basra University, I wonder about whom...
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