Celebrating Nadia Mehr

From the Malaysia Sun  -  First Pakistani girl gets doctorate in medieval history in Indian Kashmir : Nadia Mehr has scripted history by bec...

Iran: Baluchi Sunni Woman Elected Mayor

From al-monitor : Samiyeh Balochzehi, 26, was elected mayor of Kalat in Sistan-Baluchistan, an unprecedented event in one of Iran's most...

The Ghost Rapes of Bolivia

Six days ago a most disturbing article was posted on the website VICE, written by Jean Friedman-Rudovsky entitled "The Ghost Rapes of B...

Anti-Rape Fashion

From the Daily Beast : “You might find a bit of armor useful when you become queen,” Cersei Lannister recently told a female rival on  Game ...

Sorry State of Women In India

Tragic tales of violence against women and children has emerged from India.  Here are just a few of the headlines that have appeared this we...

Update: Amber Toppah

I would like to add an update to my September blog on Amber Toppah.  The image used was not correct.  As such I have updated the post with t...

Repeal of French Trouser Law

Further to my blog post from May 2012 - France: Paris' Trouser Law - comes this update from BBC News : The French government has overtu...

Mayte Almeida - The Story Continues

Further to my blog post on Mayte Almeida in May 2009, comes this update. Having retired from the ariplane business, Mayte has diversified h...

Lionesses of Syria

From Mail Online : Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has recruited an army of women to guard checkpoints and carry out security checks in an ...

Bald Barbie

From Good : Barbie has proven a controversial figure since her shapely beginnings in 1959, but as time and different civil rights movements ...

From Secretary To King

From CNN : When Peggielene Bartels went to bed on a summer night in 2008, she was an ordinary administrative assistant living in a modest on...

Epidemic of Rape in Peru

From RH Reality Check : Peru, while famous for its modern culinary delights and ancient civilizations, also has a far less flattering distin...

The Scream

From Al Arabiya News : At the peak of the uprising against now ousted Yemeni strongman Ali Abdullah Saleh, Khadija al-Salami left her diplom...

New Delhi Gang Rape Outrage

From Time World : Last Sunday in New Delhi, at around 9.30 p.m., a 23-year-old woman was gang raped for almost an hour on a moving bus and t...

Maids Rescued From Captivity

From The Star : Immigration officers rescued 105 foreign women found locked in a four-storey maid agency in Bandar Baru Klang here during a ...

Women In Post-Taliban Afghanistan

From The Independent : Just before she leapt from her roof into the streets of Kabul, Farima thought of the wedding that would never happen ...