Indonesian Woman’s Jailing Over Mosque Noise Sparks Backlash
JAKARTA — Indonesia’s jailing of a woman for complaining about the volume of a mosque loudspeaker has sparked a wave of criticism, with a petition calling for her release gaining more than 100,000 supporters. Rights groups and the Muslim-majority country’s biggest religious organization slammed the 18-month blasphemy sentence handed out Tuesday to the defendant, an […]
Berlin’s Liberal Mosque Vows to Defy Fatwa
The woman who opened a mosque in Berlin where men and women pray together and face-covering headscarves are banned has vowed to defy a fatwa from Egypt’s highest Islamic authority and criticism from the Turkish government. German-Turkish women’s rights activist Seyran Ates, 54, pioneered the opening of the Ibn Rushd-Goethe Mosque in the Moabit neighborhood […]
PHOTOS: It’s official. The Women’s March has swept the globe
As tens, even hundreds, of thousands of women pour into Washington, DC, for the Women’s March on Washington, thousand of sister marches around the world have already taken place. From Australia to India, the Czech Republic to the UK, thousands of women have taken to the streets in the name of equality, equal rights, civil […]
US Women, Minorities Aim for Equal Representation
On Election Day, American voters could elect the first female president to follow the nation’s first African-American president. But even with those historic firsts in the White House and an expected rise in the number of woman and minorities elected to the U.S. Congress this year, the nation’s highest elected offices still don’t reflect the […]