Muslim women

From loss to lifesaving: United Hatzalah officer Linor Attias reflects on her journey to save lives

“Nothing prepared me for October 7,” said United Hatzalah senior officer Linor Attias. “This is my people, my country. I was one of the victims.”

Three women EMT volunteers of United Hatzalah after finishing an ambulance shift in Jerusalem, one haredi, one religious Muslim, and one secular.
Maj. Ella Waweya, the new Arabic language spokesperson, pictured on July 7, 2024.

Israel's 'Captain Ella,' highest-ranking Muslim officer, named IDF's new Arabic spokeswoman

A Muslim woman wearing a hijab takes a photograph in Duomo square in Milan October 7, 2009.

New Italian bill targets Islamic face coverings and religious funding

 PRIME MINISTER Mette Frederiksen takes part in a news conference on the occasion of Denmark taking over the EU presidency earlier this month. Niqabs ‘are used as mechanisms of oppression toward girls,’ she argues.

Don’t ban the burka in Denmark - opinion


70 Afghan refugees arrive safely in Italy after Sylvan Adams, IsraAID rescue operation

Among those rescued are the Afghan women’s national cycling team, a female robotics team, families of diplomats, female judges, police officers, human rights workers and more.

 Displaced Afghan women stand waiting to receive cash aid for displaced people in Kabul, Afghanistan, July 28, 2022.

Muslim-German women's delegation visits Israel to learn about women's religious study

The women were in Israel as part of the Alliance of German Dialogue Institutions (BDDI), an Islamic union that works across Germany to develop relationships between people of different faiths.

 Muslim-German women's delegation at Midreshet Lindenbaum.

No place for burkinis in Grenoble's public pools, rules top French court

Body-covering swimwear - which leaves only the face, hands and feet exposed - is often worn by Muslim women who wish to preserve their modesty in accordance with their beliefs.

Muslim woman in a burka.

Taliban supreme leader orders women to wear burqa in public

They added the ideal face covering was the all-encompassing blue burqa, which became a global symbol of the Taliban's previous hardline regime from 1996 until 2001.

 A Taliban fighter is seen as a woman arrives to receive a package being distributed by a Turkish humanitarian aid group at a distribution centre in Kabul, Afghanistan, December 15, 2021.

These Yemeni women went from marginalized to the forefront

Three female role models who, despite the war in their country, have been able to raise awareness of women’s rights, and serve their sisters and society as a whole.

 Ashwaq Mahmoud (C) works in a room inside her house which she turned into a health clinic to provide care for the people in her village and neighboring villages, in Abs District, Hajjah Governorate, Yemen.

International Women’s Day protest against Iran’s regime and ex-UN envoy Mahallati

‘Celebrating 43 years of resistance against the gender apartheid Islamic regime of Iran’

Iranian-Americans, college students and community members protest against the gender apartheid policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Who is the country’s first female Muslim District Court judge?

Osali Abu Assad was appointed a full-fledged Northern Magistrate’s Court Judge in 2012.

A gavel in a court of law

Indian app auctioning Muslim women shows tech weaponized for abuse

The fake auctions that were shared widely on social media are recent examples of how technology is being used to put women at risk through online abuse, theft of privacy, or sexual exploitation.

Close up of a man using mobile smart phone