Qatar, a Muslim emirate where women enjoy all due rights, particularly education, issued a statement expressing deep concern and disappointment over the suspension of women’s education ...

Muslim tradition in Jordan is particularly restrictive ... One of the results of these long traditions is a vicious circle whereby very few women receive the education needed to become policy-makers - ...

The education of girls and women is universally accepted in more than 200 countries and territories, including nearly 50 Muslim-majority nations. But Afghanistan’s hard-line Islamist Taliban ...

Additionally, Muslim women’s share in enrolment has risen from 2012 until 2020. The 2019-20 report shows a 50.2% share, which was 49.3% in 2018-19, and 46% in 2012-13. The Wire is now on WhatsApp.

The Kwara State chapter of the Federation of Muslim Women Associations in Nigeria (FOMWAN) has reiterated its commitment to ...

They receive health education and counselling ... from doing anything to child-bearing women without their knowledge and consent. In northern (Muslim) Nigeria, Islamic clerics usually preach ...

It is the only country in the world Muslim country that is denying women education, and yet the Quran itself describes seeking knowledge and pursuing becoming literate as like a fundamental right.

The efforts of these St. Louis Muslim women are shaping the region and have created a Muslim community and culture unlike ...

Muslim women in hijab get lots of discrimination ... she also supported legislation that addressed the lack of in-depth education about Islam and other religions in Illinois public schools.

“I never even saw anyone on other teams that was covered.” In college, Chaudhary met several Muslim women who were into basketball. But unlike her, some of them didn’t feel comfortable ...

When the French education minister declared that the abayas favored by some Muslim women “can no longer be worn in schools,” he stoked a fierce debate over the country’s secular ideals.