By Hajara Kutty

Later this month, a case will be fought in the Ontario Court of Appeal involving a mother who killed two of her newborns.
The case revolves around the Criminal Code’s infanticide provision, which permits …

By Hajara Kutty
Does postpartum depression cause mothers to kill? It’s a question some may ask following the triple stabbings last week by a Winnipeg mother said to have been suffering from postpartum depression.
Fortunately, the answer …

By Haroon Siddiqui
The two most cited reasons in support of Quebec’s anti-niqab bill are that the veil is an imposed oppression since no woman would ever voluntarily wear it and, second, that the province’s proposal …

From BBC News

Saudi Arabia is planning to bring in a new law to allow women lawyers to argue cases in court for the first time.
Justice Minister Mohammed al-Eissa said the law was part …

Editorial in The New York Times
It is easy to see that a woman’s human rights are violated when a government requires her to wrap her body and face in an all-concealing veil, as the Taliban …

By Farheen Khan
In a world where women are sensationalized on the runway and on screen and stories like Rihanna and Chris Brown are in the papers within minutes, there is a whole other …

Sexual Assault/Rape Crisis Centre of Peel launches the And Still We Rise Gala featuring a personal narrative of one of our own, Jasteena Kaur Dhillon, a genocide watcher, a specialist in legal infrastructure building in …

By Naomi Wolfe
A woman swathed in black to her ankles, wearing a headscarf or a full chador, walks down a European or North American street, surrounded by other women in halter tops, miniskirts and short …

By Paul Nathanson and Katherine K. Young
Canadians have been debating the topic of “honour killings” ever since the arrest last month by Kingston police of an Afghan man, his wife and son, charged with murdering …

By Salma Saleem

I usually have to face the staring eyes of people on the streets. People look at me with mixed expressions of surprise and sympathy.
Many people think, perhaps, that I am a poor woman …

By Vivia Chen from the May issue of The American Lawyer
The sisterhood of lawyers has never been more potent. In conference rooms and swanky restaurants, women across the ranks–senior partners and associates, general counsel, and …

By Rafia Zakaria
In its rigidity, the Talibanised society mimics an authenticity that sounds and feels truly pure and Islamic and is greedily imbibed by a population that is hungry for answers.
The scene is chilling. A …

Zainah Almihdar, University of London
Abstract
Saudi Arabia has ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). However, it has made …

My phone has been ringing too many times these past few days – mostly journalists and producers calling to book an interview. I am an Afghan. The topic: “Sharia law in Afghanistan allows men to …