Women excised from public life by Islamic State

Fighters from the Islamic State group parade in Raqqa, north Syria. (photo credit: AP/Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group, File)

Jihadists force females to wear full-body robes, curtail their freedom of movement and study

Isis releases ‘abhorrent’ sex slaves pamphlet with 27 tips for militants on taking, punishing and raping female captives

File: A 15-year-old Yazidi girl captured by Isis and forcibly married to a militant in Syria.

Four arrests over acid attacks against women in Iran

Iranian women shop at the Laleh Park shopping centre in Tabriz in Iran’s north-western East-Azerbaijan province.  Iranian women have to abide by a strict dress code.

Iranian police have arrested four men suspected of involvement in multiple acid attacks against women last week

Women ordered to stop praying inside mall

Some of the members of Dublin Girls RunPhoto provided by Tammy Brantley

Stories From The Battlefield: Hamas Tunnels Used To Target Israel’s Kindergartens

This picture shows clearly the width of one of the tunnels, sufficient for wheeled vehicles to transverse it. Hamas did not build a “subway” system for Gaza residents. They built an infrastructure for one purpose, and one only, an industry of death.

‘They killed my family’: Man finds wife and her 2 daughters fatally stabbed in Texas home

Police surround the Fort Worth house after three women were found fatally stabbed on Tuesday.  DEANNA BOYD/STAR-TELEGRAM

The unidentified man found the bodies of Cythina Serrano DeLeon, 48, and her two daughters — Kathy DeLeon, 35, and April Serrano, 21 — inside the Fort Worth home on Tuesday. No arrests were immediately made.

Indian politician says Women who have sex outside marriage, even raped, should hang, ‘forgive’ rapists

SANJAY KANOJIA/AFP/Getty Images Leader of India’s Samajwadi Party Mulayam Singh Yadav is against the death-penalty law for rapists.

In an election speech, Mulayam Singh Yadav, head of the Socialist Party in Uttar Pradesh, said boys ‘make mistakes.’

Egypt jails women protesters for 11 years

Some of the 21 women caged in an Alexandria courtroom awaiting their sentences Photo: AMIRA MURTADA/AP

Egypt dismayed as 21 women are given 11-year prison sentences, far harsher than those of policemen accused of beating to death and assaulting protesters

Saudi Sheikh Warns That Women Should Not Drive

A sheikh has warned Saudi women – who are currently not allowed to drive in the country –
that getting behind the wheel could damage their ovaries and pelvis.

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A Saudi sheikh has warned women that driving could affect their ovaries and pelvises.

Women are currently banned from driving in Saudi Arabia and many have protested against the statute.

However, Sheikh Salah al-Luhaydan has warned them that their health could be at risk if they get behind the wheel.

He told Saudi news website sabq.org: ‘[Driving] could have a reverse physiological impact.

‘Physiological science and functional medicine studied this side [and found] that it automatically affects ovaries and rolls up the pelvis.

‘This is why we find for women who continuously drive cars their children are born with clinical disorders of varying degrees.’

The comments come two years after a ‘scientific’ report claimed that relaxing the ban would also see more Saudis – both men and women – turn to homosexuality and pornography.

Study: 1 in 10 men in parts of Asia have raped

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LONDON (AP) — About 1 in 10 men in some parts of Asia admitted raping a woman who was not their partner, according to the first large studies of rape and sexual violence. When their wife or girlfriend was included, that figure rose to about a quarter.

International researchers said their startling findings should change perceptions about how common violence against women is and prompt major campaigns to prevent it. Still, the results were based on a survey of only six Asian countries and the authors said it was uncertain what rates were like elsewhere in the region and beyond. They said engrained sexist attitudes contributed, but that other factors like poverty or being emotionally and physically abused as children were major risk factors for men’s violent behavior.

A previous report from the World Health Organization found one-third of women worldwide say they have been victims of domestic or sexual violence.

“It’s clear violence against women is far more widespread in the general population than we thought,” said Rachel Jewkes of South Africa’s Medical Research Council, who led the two studies. The research was paid for by several United Nations agencies and Australia, Britain, Norway and Sweden. The papers were published online Tuesday in the journal, Lancet Global Health.