Women in Islam

Briefs, January 4, 2013

4 Jan 2013

Sri Lanka's supreme court said yesterday parliament does not have the authority to investigate accusations of misconduct against senior judges and an impeachment proceeding against the chief...

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Split decisions

23 Oct 2011

Outside the Marriage Registration Office in Beijing's Chaoyang district, a young woman is handing out flyers for a company advertising wedding photography. But on this midweek morning, she is...

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Women are no longer weaker

16 Jul 2008

Women have always been looked down on, especially in Asian societies. In the old days, men were superior as women were physically weaker farmers. A lot of men still think women are weaker in all...

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A long road travelled, a long way still to go

8 Mar 2006

International Women's Day does not have quite the cachet of Mother's Day in our society. The commercialisation of the latter helps see to that.

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Living on equal footing

15 Aug 1996

It is through obvious ignorance about women in Islam that Cristina Castaneda (South China Morning Post, August 8) wrote her letter. Women have many rights in Islam - as a child, wife, mother, in...

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