“women’s rights” on The Daily Caller

Women’s rights activists are outraged by the fact that the State Department has not been willing to condemn this week’s arrests of women detained for merely driving a car. (more)

In the wake of President Barack Obama’s announcement that the United States will begin withdrawing from Afghanistan, lawmakers and leaders belonging to the Afghan Women’s Task Force fear worsening oppression of women. (more)

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – A Saudi woman defiantly drove through her nation’s capital Friday while others brazenly cruised by police patrols in the first forays of a campaign that hopes to ignite a road rebellion against the male-only driving rules in ultraconservative Saudi Arabia. (more)

A recent cover of Time magazine features a photo of an 18-year-old Afghan girl whose face has been mutilated as punishment for running away from an arranged marriage.  It’s an important, vivid reminder of the ongoing violence and discrimination that confront too many women in the Middle East.  Attacks like this are not rare.  The United Nations estimates that 5,000 women are murdered each year by Muslim family members in “honor killings.” (more)

Ninety years ago, women won the right to vote. The constitutional amendment granting women this right was the result of years of hard work by brave, dedicated, informed women who refused to accept as fate the status quo. We should use this occasion to recommit to actively shaping our government and our country’s future. The need for an informed, engaged citizenry has never been greater. (more)

Sheikh ‘Abd Al-Muhsin Al-’Obikan, an advisor at the Saudi Justice Ministry, recently issued a fatwa allowing the breastfeeding of adults. The fatwa is aimed at enabling an unrelated man and woman to be secluded in the same room, a situation which Islam considers forbidden gender mixing. The rationale behind the fatwa is that breastfeeding creates a bond of kinship between the man and woman, rendering the man her mahram,[1] thus making it acceptable for them to be together in seclusion. (more)

A COURT has ordered a mother not to breastfeed her six-year-old son. (more)

NEW YORK — Without fanfare, the United Nations this week elected Iran to its Commission on the Status of Women, handing a four-year seat on the influential human rights body to a theocratic state in which stoning is enshrined in law and lashings are required for women judged “immodest.” (more)

President Obama forcefully stated his desire to nominate a Supreme Court candidate who supports abortion rights, saying Wednesday that it is “very important” to have a justice who interprets the Constitution as protecting individual rights, including women’s. (more)

THAINDIAN NEWS – 42-year-old man had decided that he would be dismissing the nurse who had been appointed to take care of him after she refused to comply to his perversions and gratify his sexual desires. The move led to a nationwide campaign, organized by the Nurses Union of Holland, demanding that no patient should be asking them for sexual services. (more)

The bill was passed with 186 members of the 245-seat house voting in favour. Only one member voted against. Several smaller parties boycotted the vote. (more)