women’s rights

Officially, rape hardly happens in Myanmar and domestic abuse is non-existent. The reality? Violence against women is so pervasive it…

Egypt’s National Council for Women said on Monday that it is in the process of studying the article related to…

Abandoned by her sons, shunned by her neighbors and branded a witch. Mosammat Rashida’s crime? Her husband was killed by…

BAGHDAD (AP) — Hundreds of Iraqi women took to the streets of central Baghdad and southern Iraq on Thursday in…

Egypt’s Ministry of Planning and Economic Development honored 50 women, many of them leaders in the finance and banking sectors,…

“Taht El Mazla” (Under The Shade), a collection of short stories authored by legendary Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz, is set…

The reprehensible habit of female genital mutilation (FGM) has taken another life; a 12-year-old girl forced into a clinic to…

The President of Egypt’s National Council for Women (NCW), Maya Morsi, has called on Egypt’s Endowments Ministry to unify Friday…

The United Nations in Egypt on Friday condemned the death of a 12-year-old girl in Assiut Governorate, Upper Egypt, after…

CAIRO (AP) — A 12-year-old girl died this week in southern Egypt after her parents brought her to a doctor…