Raha Moharrak has become the first woman from Saudi Arabia to climb Mt. Everest when she made it to the summit yesterday after a grueling climb
Read morePakistan and Women Parliamentarians hold second dialogue on role of women parliamentarians in economic empowerment of women. The dialogue and other activities discussing gender equity at Parliament went on for three days
Read moreDSS, KIDS & PETS NEED HOMES TOO!!! I have received a plea circulated by a family that has posted its despair on Gum tree because it has become impossible to rent any kind of property if you are receiving any financial help from the state... Read more
In such a painstaking profession I found myself, and in a career that is far from being usual I preferred to be. A live interpreter in a news channel is definitely a job that is known to few, but certainly needed in the global... Read more
A key demand of the Algerian hostage takers is the release of a Pakistani mother-of-three currently serving an 86-year sentence in a US prison. So why has her case gone virtually unmentioned in the mainstream media? Journalist Yvonne Ridley... Read more
In Saudi Town, Women Protest Detentions, Leading to Their Own Last weekend, Saudi security forces encircled and arrested a small group of women who were protesting the long-term detention of relatives without charges on suspicion of terrorism... Read more
Today, Monday 7th January 2013, Vanessa Whiteley, a British writer from Cotham, and the poetry evenings coordinator of last year’s Palestine-Bristol Film Festival, has started a fast with five Bristolians in... Read more
Arab Women Media Watch Centre in UK (AWMW) congratulates the 2012 Olof Palme Prize winners, Radhia Nasraoui from Tunisia and Waleed Sami Abu Alkhair from Saudi Arabia both of whom are Arab lawyers, fighting for the freedoms and rights of... Read more
Hundosa was found on the side of the road with her head shaved. A critical Sudanese freelance journalist was found on the side of a road in Khartoum on Friday after being reported missing on October 29, according to news reports... Read more
Frome Friends of Palestine’s speaker this month will be local resident Ronelle Jonat. This summer, Ronelle stayed at Hope Secondary School, Beyt Jala near Bethlehem. She gave English sessions to local students, then... Read more