Saudi Arabia Introduces New Law, Fines Female Workers Who Don’t Cover Heads Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Labour has recently introduced a new law which fines a […]
Stand Against Harassment
Stand Against Harassment Harassment is a word we hear often and typically disregard it as if it is insignificant, despite of the fact that this word […]
Launch of the “Women, Business and the Law” Report 2016: Getting to Equal”
Launch of the “Women, Business and the Law” Report 2016: Getting to Equal” Join us for the launch of the Women, Business and the Law report […]
7-step Guide for Pakistani Victims of Hacking and Blackmail
7-step Guide for Pakistani Victims of Hacking and Blackmail Pakistan has the highest teledensity (75 per cent) in the region and the cheapest rates for radio […]
Canadian Court Rules Women May Wear Veils During Citizenship Oath
Canadian Court Rules Women May Wear Veils During Citizenship Oath A Canadian court ruled that women may be allowed to wear face-covering veils during swearing the […]
Ohio Lawyer Accused of Hypnotizing Women Officially Gives up License
Ohio Lawyer Accused of Hypnotizing Women Officially Gives up License An attorney in Ohio who was accused of hypnotizing female clients for his sexual gratification has […]
Saudi Women Allowed to Vote and Stand as candidates in Municipal Elections
Saudi Women Allowed to Vote and Stand as Candidates in Municipal Elections For the first time, women in Saudi Arabia have begun registering to vote in […]
Elimination of Discrimination, A Critical Analysis Of Muslim Family Laws
Woman is one step later to man in creation and continues her march to bridge the gap. Nobody needs to be prejudiced by an act of […]
The Impact of Islamisation of Laws on Muslim Family Law- Especially the Khula Law- in Pakistan
Although the sacred act of marriage has been given immense importance in Islam, both husband and wife have been given the right to dissolve the marriage if […]
Anti-Discriminatory Law Issued in UAE
The Anti-Discriminatory Law issued following a decree by President Sheikh Khalifa, seeks to criminalize any act that promotes religious hatred and/or which insults religion through any form of […]
War of Words Break Out as Female Lawyers Criticized Over Dress Sense
War of Words Break Out as Female Lawyers Criticized Over Dress Sense A Californian legal publication produced by the Local Bar Association, consisted of an article […]
Pakistan: 200 Female Muslim Clerics Attempt to Throw Terrorism Out of Islam
Lawyers Movement To Defend 2 Women Accused Of ‘Gross Indecency’ In Morocco
Hundreds of lawyers in Morocco have signed up to defend two women arrested for “gross indecency” for wearing dresses that were considered too tight and provocative […]
Divorce Under The Muhammadan Law And Section 7 Of The Muslim Family Laws Ordinance, 1961
Islam has condemned the act of divorce and such an action has been declared as evil which attracts displeasure of God. However, when the union between […]
First Female Judge Nominated to Afghan Supreme Court
Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani has nominated a female judge Anisa Rasouli, the head of the Afghan Women Judges Association and a former juvenile court judge, to sit as […]
France “Burqa Ban”: Just Anti-Islam or Anti-Women Too?
France, by popular claim, is a secular republic where religion is treated as a personal and private matter. Hence, the French feel that anything and everything […]
How To Close The Gender Gap? Get Political
“All men are born equal.” There is no doubt that this ideal should include women. However, since time immemorial, women from all walks of life have […]