Women of Hizb ut-Tahrir from across the world have launched a global campaign entitled, "The Khilafah "Caliphate" : A bright Model for Women's Rights and Political Role"" that will culminate in a truly historic International Women's Conference in Tunisia on the 10th of March, the week of International Women's Day. The conference will gather female opinion makers from across the Muslim world and beyond to present a detailed vision of…

On Sunday 25th of September, King Abdullah, monarch and leader of Saudi Arabia announced his decision to grant the country's women the right to vote and to stand as candidates in local municipal elections in 2015 as well as to be appointed as members of the Shura council. This comes against a backdrop of a call in May this year by more than 60 intellectuals in the kingdom to boycott…

According to an article published on 27th August by the Inter Press Service media agency, prostitution and sex trafficking of women within and from Iraq are at epidemic proportions and soaring. Some reports also describe girls who are held to cater exclusively to the sexual needs of US soldiers stationed at an airport base in the country. In June this year...

Following the arrest of the ex-IMF head and front-runner in the French Presidential elections, Dominique Strauss-Kahn for the sexual assault of a chambermaid in a New York hotel, increasing numbers of women across France have been speaking out against the deeply entrenched sexism that has long afflicted French politics and French society in general.