The Ministry of Interior of the State of Kuwait has issued a clarification regarding the ban on wearing the niqab or burqa ...

Iranian authorities are cracking down on female vocalists who have defied the country's restrictions on women singing in ...

Iran increasingly relies on electronic surveillance and the public to inform on women refusing to wear the country's mandatory headscarf in public, U.N. report says.

Israeli soldiers abducted two young men and assaulted others in the Thannaba neighborhood, east of Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank’s northwestern part, o ...

A 19-year-old mechanic in Nigeria who maintains the water supply, a ground-breaking jazz guitarist from Sudan, deep-sea ...

As a Greek woman in Afghanistan, I decided to live among ordinary Afghans to get a feel about their lives, worries and dreams ...

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia now offers e-visas to travelers, even women visiting solo, and its controversial ban on women ...

Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinians, including one woman, in Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the devasted and ...

Arab leaders meeting in Egypt are set to approve a counterproposal to President Donald Trump’s call for the Gaza Strip to be ...

A controversy erupted in a school in Pimpri-Chinchwad when a Class 10 girl alleged that she was initially asked to remove her burqa to be allowed to appear for an exam. Following police intervention, ...

In this blog, we use the term ‘women’ to refer to those born with female sex, including female chromosomes and hormones, rather than gender. We currently have very little research evidence specific to ...