Legal Commentary

Equality Now has issued Womens Action 30.1, India: The Demand for Sex Trafficking: Holding Commercial Sex Buyers Accountable
Government and NGO reports estimate that there are from hundreds of thousands to millions of women and girls prostituted in India, many of whom are victims of sex trafficking. The majority of women prostituted and trafficked within India are from ?lower? (scheduled) castes and many are girls, some brought into the sex industry as young [...

India's Supreme Court Interprets Muslim Marriage Law
The Supreme Court of India this month found itself interpreting Muslim religious law in a case awarding a Muslim woman maintenance from her husband. Under Muslim law, a man may not marry his wife's sister during his wife's lifetime...

Website for divorced women
First Wives World website For divorced women, or women going through divorce, there is another website for you to share your thoughts, whether it be frustration or jubilation, or seek out answers to those lingering questions...

Obama Campaign Apologizes Over Refusal To Seat Muslim Women In TV View
The Barack Obama campaign has apologized to two Muslim women after campaign volunteers refused to seat the women, who were wearing Muslim headscarves, directly behind Obama at a Detroit rally on Monday...

Intolerance in Indonesia
. . . the ongoing persecution of the Ahmadiyya, a small Muslim sect founded in late 19th century India, underscores Indonesia's ? and the Muslim world's ? trouble guaranteeing a bedrock democratic value: freedom of conscience.

Muslim Women Sue McDonald's Franchise For Hiring Discrimination
Friday's Detroit News reports that two Muslim women have filed a religious discrimination lawsuit in state court against a Dearborn, Michigan McDonald's restaurant and its manager. The women, who applied for jobs at McDonald's, were told that they would not be able to wear their hijab (Muslim headscarf) while at work because it was too hot in the kitchen for the head coverings...

Hurricane Ike
Gulf Coast Residents Fight for Compensation

Lipitor
Review of Studies Show No Significant Benefit in Women

Religious Discrimination
NMSU to pay $165,000 in Muslim discrimination settlement.