women’s rights

Egypt’s Grand Mufti Shawki Allam stressed that equating the inheritance between men and women is against Islamic Sharia (law), as…

(CNN) – Saudi Arabia’s state airline will suspend all flights to and from Toronto starting next week, amid a intensifying…

DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia has arrested two more women’s rights activists, the latest to be swept up in a…

  Saudi Arabia on Monday began issuing its first driving licences to women in decades, authorities said, just weeks before…

  Saudi Arabia has released veteran women’s rights activist Aisha al-Manea following her arrest last week with several other activists…

MP Anisa Essam Hassouna called for the selection of a qualified female to be the prime minister of Egypt in…

Fatima Salem giggles with hesitation when it’s her turn to drive through a small parking lot lined with bright orange…

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…