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September 28, 2009

Egypt anger over virginity faking

A leading Egyptian scholar has demanded that people caught importing a female virginity-faking device into the country should […]
September 28, 2009

Opinion: Forced Marriages in the UK–would you know what to do?

In 2008 The British Forced Marriage unit statistics recorded 1618 reports of possible forced marriage, of which 39% […]
September 26, 2009

Muslim women’s right to happiness under threat

In a letter to the editor of the Financial Times titled “Muslim women’s right to happiness under threat,” […]
September 25, 2009

Muslim ‘apostates’ in U.S. ask for protection

Five ex-Muslims who founded a group called Former Muslims United have put out a public appeal to the […]
September 25, 2009

Welfare and the burqa in the Netherlands

The Mayor of Amsterdam, Job Cohen, says in an interview with Dutch daily Trouw that he opposes the […]
September 25, 2009

Forced marriage foiled in Fargo, North Dakota

A forced marriage between Bosnian teens has been foiled in Fargo, North Dakota: “The parents often get together […]
September 23, 2009

Police changes target ‘honour’ crimes

Hundreds more so-called honor crimes could be recorded by police under a British drive to bring offenders to […]
September 19, 2009

Scandinavia fights female genital mutilation

Sweden, Denmark and Norway try to stop genital mutilation among immigrants at home and abroad. via:[http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/europe/090916/scandinavia-female-genital-mutilation?page=0,0]
September 18, 2009

Teen at center of rights suit

Abercrombie & Fitch is being sued by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for allegedly not hiring a […]
September 16, 2009

Italy: Moroccan man accused of ‘honor killing’

A Moroccan man in Italy is facing murder charges after allegedly stabbing his 18-year-old daughter to death in […]
September 15, 2009

New British Push in Honor Killings

In the first half of this year alone, the British government’s Forced Marriage Unit–which deals with honour violence […]
September 15, 2009

Opinion: FDLA Report Endangers Rifqa Bary

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has been criticized for insufficiently investigating the claims of Rifqa Bary, a […]
September 14, 2009

Yemeni girl, 12, dies in painful childbirth

A 12-year-old Yemeni girl, who was forced into marriage with a 24-year-old man, died during a painful childbirth […]
September 12, 2009

Dutch Court clears father of FGM

A Court in Haarlem, the Netherlands, has acquitted a man of Moroccan origins of charges that he performed […]
September 11, 2009

Imam Fawaz Jneid: Headscarf prevents rape

The leader of the Green Left party in the Dutch Parliament, Femke Halsema, recently said in an interview: […]