women’s rights
Tunisia lifts ban on Muslim women marrying non-Muslims
By The Associated Press — September 15, 2017
(AP) — Muslim men were allowed to marry non-Muslim women, but not the other way around.
Tunisian women’s rights plan rattles Muslim traditionalists
By Jerome Socolovsky — September 15, 2017
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — An initiative by Tunisia's president to make inheritance and marriage rules fairer to women is reverberating around the Muslim world and risks dividing his country.
In quest for equal rights, Muslim women win right to enter sacred Indian tomb
By guest — December 13, 2016
MUMBAI, India (RNS) In August, Bombay’s highest court agreed that nothing in Islam forbids their entry and that safety concerns were unsubstantiated.
Phyllis Schlafly and the future of ‘women’s issues’
By Jennifer A. Marshall — September 7, 2016
WASHINGTON (RNS) Anyone who deems a liberal political objective 'inevitable' hasn’t paid enough attention to the legacy of Phyllis Schlafly.
In Pakistan, religious right criticizes women’s protection law
By Aysha Khan — March 1, 2016
(RNS) A new law aims to protect women in Pakistan, but religious hard-liners say it will lead to divorce.
End ban on women reading Torah at Western Wall, group petitions
By Michele Chabin — November 30, 2015
JERUSALEM (RNS) An Israeli women’s rights organization says the administrator of the Western Wall lacks the legal authority to withhold Torah scrolls from any Jewish worshipper.
Meryl Streep, ‘Suffragette,’ and feminism’s sin of erasure (COMMENTARY)
By Laura Turner — October 9, 2015
(RNS) White feminism in the West has a long history of erasure of women of color.
Let Cecil the lion’s death shine light on Zimbabwe’s human rights abuses (COMMENTARY)
By Brian Pellot — July 29, 2015
(RNS) The Internet melted when news broke that a Minnesota dentist had killed Zimbabwe’s most beloved big cat. Allow me to steal Cecil’s spotlight for a moment with five facts about the country’s egregious human rights record.
N.Y. Freethought Trail traces nonbelievers who chartered a historic course
By Kimberly Winston — August 26, 2013
SENECA FALLS, N.Y. (RNS) Settlers transformed West-Central New York into a hotbed of radical social and religious ideas, including Mormonism and Spiritualism. A new Freethought Trail highlights the prominent atheists and agnostics who also called the region home.
COMMENTARY: Refusing service in the name of religion is never acceptable
By Nancy K. Kaufman — July 17, 2013
(RNS) Refusal to serve -- using religion to discriminate -- isn't new. The idea that any service could be denied based on religious conviction didn't survive the civil rights revolution and should not be revived now.
Robert Ingersoll, in his own words
By Kimberly Winston — May 29, 2013
(RNS) Atheists, humanists and agnostics say Robert Ingersoll's thoughts on civil rights and church-state separation are as relevant today as they were in the late 19th century.
Tensions flare over women’s prayers at sacred Western Wall
By Michele Chabin — April 4, 2013
JERUSALEM (RNS) The ultra-Orthodox rabbi in charge of the sacred Western Wall assured a government emissary that Jewish women will not be arrested if they try to hold prayer rallies at the holy site, despite a warning from Israeli police.
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