The 13th of August marked the 60th anniversary of Tunisia’s Personal Status Code (PSC) introduced in 1956 by the staunch secular dictator Habib Bourguiba.

On August 13th, the BBC reported that the President of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev made derogatory, insulting statements regarding the Islamic dress of Muslim women during a press conference, suggesting that it was potentially dangerous by associating it with terrorism.

he Gambian parliament approved on Thursday, July 21st, 2016 the decision of the Gambian President, Yahya Jammeh, to ban marriage for girls under 18 years. The parliament passed an amendment to the Child Protection Act of 2005, imposing exaggerated penalties on anyone involved in a marriage of a girl under the age of eighteen.

French warplanes affiliated to the coalition forces committed on Tuesday, July 19, 2016 in the Greater Toukhan village north of Manbij city in Syria, an appalling massacre resulting in the death of more than 200 civilians, mostly children, women and elderly, including entire families, and wounding dozens others.