Tag: Women

IS frees six Syria Druze women, children after three-month ordeal

IS frees six Syria Druze women, children after three-month ordeal

The Islamic State group has released two women and four children among 27 surviving Druze hostages it seized during a deadly July attack on the minority community’s heartland in southern Syria. State television broadcast footage of the six arriving in the city of Sweida on Saturday, joyful at being reunited with their families but haggard […]

October 20, 2018 | By | Reply More
Women of honour- Speaking out on rape in Syria

Women of honour- Speaking out on rape in Syria

Despite death threats and rejection, Syrian women have found the courage to speak out about rape. The first time a woman who had been raped inside a Syrian prison, it was November 2011. I was in Homs and the city was under siege. We were there meeting victims of the first wave of crackdowns on […]

June 20, 2018 | By | Reply More
Fleeing Rohingya women describe Myanmar soldier’s brutal rape campaign

Fleeing Rohingya women describe Myanmar soldier’s brutal rape campaign

Western Myanmar’s Rakhine state when the military came and the gunfire started. “All the men from the village started running away, and my son ran with them,” Zubaida, 25, says. He didn’t get far: Myanmar soldiers shot him dead — in the back. With her 8-year-old son’s head resting in her lap, Zubaida was sitting […]

April 21, 2017 | By | Reply More
Butcher Assad vows more bloodshed in Syria in response to US missile strikes

Butcher Assad vows more bloodshed in Syria in response to US missile strikes

Two Syrian jets took off today from the same air base that was hit by U.S. missiles and carried out strikes on areas under rebels control in the countryside of eastern Homs. Assad Angrily declaring that the US attack would not go unpunished, Syria’s brutal dictator Bashar al-Assad vowed swift retaliation on his nation’s civilians […]

April 8, 2017 | By | Reply More
Islamic Hijab wearing female staff can be sacked by employer, Top European court rules

Islamic Hijab wearing female staff can be sacked by employer, Top European court rules

Top EU court ruled against women in France saying: ‘The visible wearing of any religious sign does not constitute direct discrimination. Two registered cases were taken to the court by women in France and Belgium who were sacked for refusing to remove their headscarves. ‘However the court ruling says the willingness of an employer to […]

March 14, 2017 | By | Reply More
Iraqi women burn face veils in joy after their village liberated from ISIS

Iraqi women burn face veils in joy after their village liberated from ISIS

Women celebrating as they removed their face veil, stomped on it and set it alight after her village was reportedly liberated from the Islamic State. The video footage of the moment released the woman, who is not identified, cheered and screamed as she removed her niqab as other women and children – also wearing gleaming […]

February 23, 2017 | By | Reply More
Eight women killed 10 injured in air raid at Yemen funeral

Eight women killed 10 injured in air raid at Yemen funeral

Yemeni capital air raid kills eight women and a child at a funeral reception, witnesses said, adding to the conflict’s mounting civilian death toll. 10 other women were wounded in the overnight raid on the district of Arhab, 40 kilometres (25 miles) north of Sanaa, medics sent to the site told. The United Nations gave […]

February 18, 2017 | By | Reply More
Indian minister blames western dress for sex attacks

Indian minister blames western dress for sex attacks

An Indian minister faced a severe backlash Tuesday after he criticised women for dressing “like westerners” at a New Year’s Eve celebration where a mob allegedly carried out a series of sex assaults. Although police have yet to charge anyone in connection with the violence on Saturday night in Bangalore, local media have carried testimony […]

January 4, 2017 | By | Reply More
Mild Heart Disease May Pose Equal Risks for Men and Women

Mild Heart Disease May Pose Equal Risks for Men and Women

Dec 03, – Men and women with mild heart disease share the same risks, at least over the short term, a new study suggests. Doctors have thought that women with mild heart disease do worse than men. This study, however, suggests that the rate of heart attacks and death among men and women with heart […]

December 3, 2013 | By | Reply More
Moms With Lupus More Likely to Have Children With Autism, Study Suggests

Moms With Lupus More Likely to Have Children With Autism, Study Suggests

Oct 27, – Women with lupus are twice as likely to have a child with autism compared to mothers without the autoimmune disease, new, preliminary research finds. However, the overall risk is still low and the findings won’t change the management of women with lupus, said one expert. “I wouldn’t tell my lupus patients not […]

October 27, 2013 | By | Reply More