The UN High Commissioner for Refugees announced the number of Syrian refugees he has documented in the surrounding countries has exceeded one million much earlier than expected, which has increased pressure on the surrounding countries that have had difficulty supporting them.

On the 3rd of March 2013, the women of Hizb ut Tahrir/ Malaysia will host their first national women's conference. It will be held in Kuala Lumpur, under the title, "Upholding the Establishment of Shariah and Khilafah "Caliphate"" and will include local and foreign speakers.

On Thursday 14th February 2013, the BBC, CNN and other media outlets reported that NATO airstrikes killed 10 civilians, including 4 women and 5 children during a joint Afghan-NATO operation in the Shigal district of the northeastern Kunar province of Afghanistan. Last October, at least four children were killed in a U.S. missile attack on a residential area in Afghanistan's eastern province of Logar, and an airstrike by US forces…

Two years on from the Egyptian uprising, this historical event has not delivered the hopes and aspirations that the thousands of women who played a pivotal role to topple Mubarak and his regime. The women of Egypt today continue to live under the shadow of a military dictatorship that has brutally assaulted female protestors and violated their honour with impunity.