women’s rights

February 1, 2020

UN in Egypt condemns death of girl in Assiut from genital mutilation

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

January 31, 2020

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

January 28, 2020

Egypt’s Endowments Ministry Spokesperson Ahmed al-Qady has said that the ministry will respect the rulings of the judiciary, following the…

January 27, 2020

Egypt’s High Administrative Court approved on Monday Cairo University’s decision to ban its professors from wearing the niqab, or face…

January 24, 2020

NEW DELHI (AP) — In the Indian capital’s Shaheen Bagh neighborhood, beside open sewers and dangerously dangling electricity wires, a…

January 23, 2020

Rashmi Sahijwala never expected to start working at the age of 59, let alone join India’s gig economy – now…

January 20, 2020

Global search engine Google celebrated the 106th birthday of late lawyer Moufida Abdel Rahman on January 20, changing its well-known…

January 13, 2020

An Egyptian Coptic woman has praised the Minya Criminal Court’s 10-year-sentence in absentia on Saturday of three of her assaulters,…

January 13, 2020

DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s only female Olympic medalist has said on social media she had left her homeland because she…

January 7, 2020

PARALIMNI, Cyprus (AP) — A Cyprus court on Tuesday handed a four-month suspended sentence to a 19-year-old British woman who…