Women's rights

An MP has called for ministers to ban the wearing of burkas, branding it ''offensive'' and ''against the British way of life''. Philip Hollobone, Conservative MP for

Federal immigration officials say there’s little they can do to stop "child brides” from being sponsored into Canada by much older husbands who wed them in arranged marriages abroad. Top

Confronting a Pressing Social Problem. According to a study, 98 percent of the foreign women and 83 percent of the Egyptian women have at some point been subject to sexual

It is the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day. A cause for celebration? Yes and no. Women's emancipation will not progress as fast in the next 100 years as it has in the past century. In many cases it might even regress.

In Paris, sixty activists of Ni Putes ni Soumises made an early start on International Women's Dyy by marching with liberty caps in the place de la République, and then symbolically covering the statue

Before the rise of Islam, the Middle East had a wide range of religions and cultures. So much so that it is difficult to imagine the world today without the ideas and beliefs that emerged from there.

Recently, a Southern California Imam by the name of Jihad Turk (pictured above), spoke at a Pepperdine University interfaith conference entitled “Common Ground: Reconciliation among the

A foreign national who forced his French wife to wear the full Islamic veil will be denied French citizenship, the immigration minister said Tuesday. Eric Besson said he had signed a decree

If anyone missed Channel 4’s Dispatches the other night, can I very much recommend it? "Britain’s Islamic Republic” is available here and is vital viewing. Andrew Gilligan’s programme will be

The case of the part-time Malaysian model who hit the headlines when she was sentenced to be caned for drinking a beer. The sentence is yet to be carried out but Malaysian political and religious