Conservatives in Morocco have forced the Islamic feminist Asma Lamrabet to relinquish her post at the Centre d'Etudes Feminines en Islam in Rabat. A debate on discrimination against women in Islamic inheritance law sparked the conflict, fuelled in part by a draft amendment in Tunisia that would institute an egalitarian law of inheritance there. By Claudia Mende
Representatives of the private sector and economists have encouraged regional developers to establish a private sector development council to invest in regional special economic zones (SEZs), as they called for renewed focus on the development of exiting SEZs.
In a patriarchal world where women have been traditionally silenced, these six icons of the Indian feminist movement defied the norm and paved the way to the feminism we experience today.
India’s plan to allow foreign universities to set up campuses here is an attempt to make the education system world-class, but three months into the announcement, is the country ready?