women’s rights

MAZAIKEWALE, Pakistan (AP) — Sold by her family as a bride to a Chinese man, Samiya David spent only two…

Egypt’s Ministry of Social Solidarity opened on Tuesday a new center hosting and mentoring battered women in Giza. The center…

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Women in Saudi Arabia will no longer need to use separate entrances from men or…

Within months of Sudan’s first women’s football league kicking off, the championship’s emerging stars are being hailed as icons for…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian-American activist famous for her campaign against the Islamic Republic’s mandatory headscarf, or…

BEIRUT (AP) — Nadyn Jouny’s sister taped up two messages in her memory inside a closet at the family home…

CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s transitional government announced on Friday that it has overturned a moral policing law and moved to…

A Yemeni man stabbed three performers during a live play in the Saudi capital Monday, police said, in the first…

Women’s groups and legal experts demanded Friday that Spain’s laws be changed after five men accused of gang-raping an unconscious…

CAIRO (Reuters) – The 17-year-old South Sudanese refugee finally managed to escape after three months as a prisoner in a…