The Qatari Institution for Child and Woman Protection is tasked with the role of providing effective protection to women and children. An interview with Farida Al-Obaidly, General Director of the organisation. What are the major objectives of the Qatari Institution for Child and Woman Protection? The institution aims at the follwoing: 1 Assistance in the [...]
December 31, 2009 | Posted in
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A 15-year-old British girl murdered by her father in so-called honour killing was reportedly pregnant at the time of her death. Tulay Goren disappeared in January 1999, shortly after her father told his eight-year-old son to kiss his sister goodbye as he would never see her again. Her body was never found. Mehmet Goren, 49, [...]
December 31, 2009 | Posted in
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PARIS (Reuters) – France’s ruling UMP party plans to present a bill to parliament in January on banning full Islamic veils in all public places and not just in certain buildings, a senior party official said on Tuesday. The bill would be accompanied by a resolution related to respect for women, Jean-Francois Cope, the parliamentary [...]
December 31, 2009 | Posted in
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A Labour MP has bitterly attacked plans for a Muslim ‘Eton’ for girls. The college for 1,500 pupils would be both the largest Muslim faith school and the biggest boarding school in the country – larger than 1,330-pupil Eton. Yesterday Gordon Prentice, MP for Pendle, near the school site in Burnley, warned that it could [...]
December 30, 2009 | Posted in
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Muslims in Europe face “alarming” levels of discrimination, and urgent action is needed to tackle the problem, a new report says. The Open Society Institute, a private foundation set up by financier George Soros, said many Muslims experienced discrimination as well as social and economic disadvantages. But it said most Muslims still wanted to live [...]
December 30, 2009 | Posted in
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It is a scene of peaceful serenity. Rows of men kneel in deep prayer inside a large hall on the outskirts of Jakarta. The women sit just behind them, their heads bowed in quiet contemplation. It could be afternoon prayers anywhere in Indonesia, a vast Muslim-majority archipelago, but this scene happens to be inside the [...]
December 30, 2009 | Posted in
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‘The way a woman wears a dupatta tells you a lot about her,’ a friend once said. That statement aptly reflects the fact that Pakistani women – throughout this nation’s history – have been judged by this single piece of fabric. Regarded as an integral part of a woman’s costume in Pakistani culture, the dupatta [...]
December 29, 2009 | Posted in
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A group of Kazakh parliament members is urging Education Minister Zhanseit Tuymebaev to reverse a ban on Islamic head scarves among high-school and university students, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reports. Lawmaker Rozakul Khalmuradov, told a session of parliament that the Education and Science Ministry had ordered all schools and universities to ban hijabs and other religious [...]
December 29, 2009 | Posted in
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A member of the French parliament is planning to file legislation that would ban Muslim women from wearing veils that hide their faces in public.Lawmaker Jean-Francois Cope, who head’spresident Nicolas Sarkozy’s Union for Popular Movement Party (UMP), says he wants the veil not only banned from public buildings, but also from the streets of France.Sarkozy [...]
December 28, 2009 | Posted in
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SRINAGAR, India — Two Muslim women whose deaths sparked major independence rallies in Indian Kashmir earlier this year were not murdered, investigators said on Monday. Many Kashmiris opposed to New Delhi’s rule over the Muslim-majority region have accused Indian security forces of raping the 17-year-old girl and her 22-year-old sister-in-law before their bodies were found [...]
December 28, 2009 | Posted in
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