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Tunisia: Landmark Step to Shield Women from Violence

Human Rights Watch | - - New Law Offers Protection, but Needs Funding (Tunis) – The law on violence against women, including domestic violence, approved by the Tunisian parliament on July 26,…

Turkish Women rally re: Abuse by Conservatives over Outfits

TeleSur | - - Istanbul has been widely viewed as a fairly liberal city for women and the LGBT community. On the weekend, hundreds of Turkish women marched in Istanbul to protest…

Saudi, slamming Qatar for Extremism, arrests Model for wearing Skirt in Public

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The intrepid Yaroslav Trofimov of WSJ said it all: Good luck to the Saudi PR campaign about how Qatar is the source of…

The Real Victims of Trump-Putin Illiberalism: Women

By Gail Ukockis | (Informed Comment) | - - When I first read about the Russian government decriminalizing domestic violence recently, my first thought was: it can’t happen here. Then I realized…

Uber Can be Fixed; and Mideast Women Need It

By Neslihan Cevik | (Informed Comment) | - - While in such metropolises as New York or Istanbul, Uber is most famous for hacking the commercial taxi system, it has hacked something…

Freeing Fayza: A Journey to War-Torn Iraq to Rescue a Yazidi ISIL Slave Girl

By: Brian Glyn Williams and Christopher Natola | (Informed Comment) | - - It began with an electrifying text message from a Yazidi member of a network dedicated to freeing Yazidis (an…

Demand-Side Slavery, Libyan Instability and European Crime Networks

Neil Thompson | (Informed Comment) | - - After several years in which refugees and migration have featured heavily in the Western media narrative, a disturbing correlation between human trafficking and conflict…

Iranian Women push back against Cleric who likened Loosely Veiled Women To Prostitutes

By Golnaz Esfandiari. | ( RFE/RL) | - - Judging women by the degree to which they respect the compulsory hijab is nothing new in Iran. In the past, hard-liners have accused…

What Iranian women want: rights, jobs and a seat at the table

By Azadeh Davachi | (The Conversation) | - - Issues affecting women were conspicuously absent from Iran’s 2017 presidential election. That’s unless one finds useful the leading conservative candidate Hojjat al-Islam Ebrahim…

GOP Greatest Single Threat to Mothers on Mother’s Day

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - I know it is sort of gauche to politicize Mother's Day. But then politicians politicize family values all the time. And besides, the…

Are Feminism and Islam Mutually Exclusive? Fighting Hislam

By Susan Carland | (The Conversation) | - - Islam is not unique in having theological interpretations that centre on men. Christian, Jewish and Buddhist women (and men) have grappled with the…

No Woman Has Ever Run For Iranian President. Will Azam Taleghani Be The First?

By Golnaz Esfandiari. | ( RFE/RL) | - - Update: Ms. Taleghani has been disqualified. Her journey is still amszing. On April 14, a tiny, frail-looking woman wearing a chador and using…

Bill O’Reilly driven from air by Advertiser Boycott over Sexual Harassment?

Lawrence O'Donnell | The Last Word | (Video News Clip) | - - "Bill O'Reilly is off the air for Easter "vacation," but Gabe Sherman reports the Murdochs are fighting over O'Reilly's…

Amal Clooney and Nadia Murad Want to Stop an ISIL Genocide

Popsugar Entertainment | (Video Report) | - - "Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney is hoping to help stop a genocide at the hands of ISIL with the help of one brave survivor."…

Women’s National Strike over Pay inequities, Glass Ceiling

CBS News | Video News Clip | -- "Women worldwide walked off the job Wednesday to protest and demand equality. Anna Werner reports from Alexandria, Virginia, which had to close its schools…

Turkey’s Coup aftermath and Human Rights: A Feminist Perspective

By Banu Gökarıksel | ( Duke University Blog ) | - - Feminist critiques of political power reveal the central function of gender, sexuality, and difference in maintaining that power. Yet, in…

Should Bannon Resign? He and Milo Fake-Newsed Hillary as Pedophile

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The interview that emerged on the internet of practicing Catholic Milo Yiannopoulos expressing approval of some instances of priest pedophilia with boys has…

Photo of the Day: Sad Girl, Happy Girl, Iran 1900 (Sykes)

British Museum | Sir Percy Sykes | - - Two rural Iranian girls of the Qajar era, 1900, one sad, one mischievous. Via British Museum Museum number: Sykes.453 Description: Lantern slide, showing…

Sen. Elizabeth Warren silenced on Floor for Reading King Letter re: Sessions

CNN International | (Video News Report with text Appendix) In an extremely rare rebuke, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren was cut off while speaking on the Senate floor. She had been reading a…

Feature, not Bug: Trump’s Chaos Theory of Government

Jacek Rostowski | (Project Syndicate) | - - WARSAW – In the weeks since Donald Trump’s inauguration as President of the United States, it has become clear that he intends to roll…