Tag: women's rights

Women often have a smaller body size, which limits the number of donor lungs that are physically compatible. They are also more likely to develop antibodies from prior pregnancies, blood transfusions, or autoimmune conditions, making it harder for their bodies to accept many potential donor organs. Together, these factors significantly narrow the pool of compatible donors, Ardehali said.

Women in the Taliban-controlled country of Afghanistan are already banned from showing their bodies and faces in public. A new blow to dehumanizing women is the ban of the sound of women's voices in public. Like the regime in Iran that controls women singing in public and showing their hair, the restrictions in Afghanistan are more fierce and among them bans women from being friends with non-Muslims and from entering national parks: 

Dubai is opening a new cafe in 2023, Donna Cyber Café, featuring "super-model" Diana, who will serve you coffee with a smile between the valleys of her big bosom. 

Like China who has been using AI and facial detection surveillance to pinpoint people breaking lockdown, Iran's morality police are using cameras to catch women without a head covering –- a moral sin in Iran.

Barely able to drive, Saudi women might be ruling a cabin near you. If we ever get to fly again.

While some women may dream of going to a post-workout Starbucks in Lululemon hot pink workout pants  - in Afghanistan women are fighting for the right to work out at all.

Heavy rain pummeled Jeddah this week, a Saudi Arabian city on the Red Sea, flooding streets, submerging cars, and...

Pressure on women to marry young is not unique to the Middle East, but in this region, once a...

Restaurants and cafes in Jeddah have posted signs warning women that if they want to be served sheesha, their mahrams (male guardians) must be...

The Skateistan skateboarding school first established in Kabul shelters girls and street kids from Afghanistan's harsh realities. Since then, it has been so successful, the non-profit NGO has established two more locations.

It takes a special man to carry off a skirt.  In Iran, a growing group of Kurdish guys are...

Two years after the revolution in Egypt, sexual assaults against women are rising and becoming more violent, says several...