women’s rights

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday that women were being sidelined in the hoped-for transition to democracy in…

The Islamist Ennahda Party’s election victory in Tunisia has come to mean many different things. For outside observers wary of how the…

Like most Muslim Sisters, Fatma Abdel Hafez grew up within the Muslim Brotherhood's tightly knit networks. She was born to…

Believe it or not: Egyptian men are busy planning and implementing another revolution, but this time women will not play…

President of the Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS) Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi has called on King Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz of Saudi…

Egyptian women’s organizations announced Saturday the reestablishment of the Egyptian Feminist Union, a group that dates back to 1923 when…

Saudi Arabia will allow women to stand for election and vote, the king announced on Sunday, in a significant policy…

Feminists dismayed that Egypt's revolution is failing to advance their cause are trying to rally disparate women's groups to defend…

Egyptian human rights groups on Tuesday criticized what they called under-representation of women in the country's new government. Planning and…

A new law on political rights approved by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces would deny Egyptian expatriates the…