women's rights
What Not to Wear: Women's Clothing and Women's Rights
This summer Lubna Hossein made world headlines by wearing pants in Sudan. She got into lots of trouble—Hussein was arrested and jailed--along with 12 other women who were given the punishment of 10 lashes and a fine.
A few weeks earlier, French President Nicholas Sarkozy said women should not wear burqas.
Statement from Members of the Women's Movement in Iran
A Teacher in Kabul Speaks Out Against the Shia Family Law and a Flaccid government
Women don't Need to Vote: A Tigua Tribe Member Explains How they Get their Say
Photo cc: Chad Horwedel
There's been lots of controversy in El Paso recently about the re-opening of a casino owned by the Tiguas.
Parental Leave: Beyond Either/Or
Establishing a universal parental leave and benefits program should be the next big push toward gender equality in the United States so that women no longer have to choose between being a professional and being a mother.
Understanding Shari'a: A Methodology That Can Promote Women's Rights
By Joan Elizabeth Mulholland
The west misunderstands shari’a law as a codification of sexist laws that stamps on women’s rights. Yet shari’a, as a method of Islamic legal thought, can be used to promote women’s rights.
We've heard about Human rights problems in China, how about women's rights?
My son was kidnapped by his father, what do I do now?
Long story, you've heard some version of it before, Betty Mahmoody most likely. I surfed the cultural divide for many years, living both abroad and in the US with my Moroccan husband, never imagining the children I would one day have could be bargaining chips.
