women’s rights

Lebanon is campaigning to get at least five times more women elected to parliament this spring in its first vote…

The spokesman for Marriage Celebrants Egypt, Mahmoud Bahi al-Din, called for lowering girls’ marital age for 16, while keeping men’s…

A prominent Egyptian human rights lawyer has won a European prize for her work representing political prisoners and torture victims as…

A wave of solidarity has swept through 122 parties, rights organizations and public figures as they announced on Tuesday their…

Head of Cairo Appeal Court Abdullah Al-Baga stated on Saturday that the Egyptian law does not include any article that stipulates…

Cairo was named on Monday as the most dangerous megacity for women by an international poll with women’s rights experts…

A Saudi woman who appeared in a video driving a car in the capital, Riyadh, has been briefly detained for…

In a first for the conservative religious kingdom, Saudi Arabia has declared that women will finally be able to drive, the…

Dean of Faculty of Agriculture at Alexandria University, Tarek Sorour, issued a decision banning torn pants and excessive jewelry on female…

Iran’s president has named two women as vice presidents after proposing a Cabinet that included no women among his ministerial…