Empowerment

A Saudi charity which helps divorced and underprivileged women has won a European Union prize for human rights groups in the Gulf, the Riyadh office of the European Commission said on Wednesday.
We are delighted to announce that Ms. Cherifa Kheddar is the recipient of the 2009 International Service - Human Rights Award for the Defence of the Human Rights of Women.
"The Masjid was inaugurated on August 29, 2008 and about 150 women took part in prayer on the very first day. ‘It’s a gift to our mother and sisters for the Ramadan’, said Sayedullah Nongrum, MLA and Secretary of the Shillong Muslim Union since 1982."
"Organisée par l'Union arabe des aveugles en collaboration avec l'Association libyenne des aveugles "Nour", elle a axé ses travaux sur la promotion de la femme arabe aveugle dans tous les domaines de la vie sociale."
"Un CD de produits audio et de programmes radio dont la diffusion vise la promotion de l’abandon des mutilations génitales féminines..."
Pas de photos, pas de concerts, pas d'interviews: un groupe de rock féminin parvient tout de même à exister en Arabie Saoudite.
Who says Saudi girls can’t rock? Four of them recently struck hammer to the anvil to forge The Accolade, an all-girl rock band. The band’s name comes from an Edmund Leighton painting of a princess knitting herself a warrior.
Hundreds of divorced Muslim women demand the same rights as men during two days of protest against ‘talak’. Islamic divorce allows husbands to repudiate their wives, throw them out of the house without any support.
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