It is routine work for 43 year old Helen Rawlins. For years now she finds peace saving women forced into marriages. She knows the way the cruel world acts upon their daughters. She wants a change. She might not be able to change the mentality of...

Authorities in the US state of Texas have removed 52 girls from the ranch of the polygamist sect led by Warren Jeffs as part of a child abuse investigation. Eighteen of the girls, aged between 6 months and 17, are in state custody. The rest are...

A female, the most sublime creation of God, is merely an item of barter in Afghanistan. Although, the Taliban era has ended, yet the side effects remain. Debts are paid off, family feuds solved, murder accusation charges restrained, thanks to...

Fifteen year old Fatima was just happy to attend the wedding of a male cousin in Turkey. She was very eager to meet the bridegroom. But after she arrived in the small Turkish village, she came to know that she was the bride. Despite Fatima’s...

According to the Quran women have an equal access to education as men. But in Afghanistan where majority of the people are followers of Islam, women are denied of their right to education. Though with the passage of time certainly there is a rise...