Women's rights

Failure to educate parents on the dangers of Female Genital Mutilation in Nakuru is the main reason why the vice has never been curbed. Gilgil children's officer Eunice

The death of a girl who was having an operation to have her clitoris removed puts a new spotlight on the practice of female genital mutilation in Egypt. Last week, writes Alastair Beach, while a doctor was carving up Soheir's genitalia, the operation took a catastrophic turn

Soheir died of an overdose of anaesthesia. Female genital mutilation (FGM), a ritual still widely practiced across Egypt, writes Beach, was officially outlawed in 2008. This

FGM is considered an essential part of raising a girl and preparing her for marriage in most places where it’s practiced. Connected to beliefs about premarital virginity and

A play about the controversial issue of female circumcision has won the New Writing South 2013 Best New Play Award. Gather Ye Rosebuds by Silva Semerciyan, which ran at the

The proliferation of "temporary marriages" shows how Muslims in Britain are using Islamic Sharia Law to establish parallel forms of marriage that are otherwise illegal

An increasing number of Muslims in Britain are reviving the Islamic practice of temporary marriage, according to a recent BBC television documentary focusing on the "taboo

Young men who have been brought up in London strongly oppose female genital mutilation even if their ethnic communities still practise it, a new study says. Researchers

Police in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia has confirmed the news that a girl had been raped and murdered by a Saudi prince. The scandal was another loop in a chain of moral and ethical

In 2012, 232 women were the victims of gang rape. That is an average of 5 per week. This is what emerges from a parliamentary question posed by the Vlaams Belang MP Peter

"It's because they feel they will be labelled for bringing dishonour upon themselves and their families." Not just "labelled." Murdered. Honor-killed. "South Asian girls