18-year-old Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun arrived in the country that granted her asylum wearing a gray sweatshirt with the word “Canada.”
Tag: Women and Girls
She Recorded Her Boss’s Lewd Call. Guess Who Went to Jail?
A bookkeeper’s ordeal has become a very public example of Indonesia’s failure to protect women from sexual harassment.
Saudi Women, Tired of Restraints, Find Ways to Flee
Often aided and inspired by social media, an increasing number of young Saudi women are taking enormous gambles to escape the country, rights groups say.
At War: ‘On Parris Island, We Felt Isolated From the Rest of the World’
In this week’s At War newsletter: a Times reporter and former Marine writes about his life in boot camp, in response to the service’s gender-integration news.
She Wanted to See Her Boyfriend. She May Have Been Beheaded for It.
Days after a 16-year-old’s mutilated body was found in a small Indian town, the police arrested her father, who they believe arranged her killing.
Britain Drops Demand That Women Forced Into Marriage Pay for Rescue
Reversing a policy that caused widespread outrage, the government will instead seek expenses from the people who sent the women abroad — often their parents.
Woman and 2 Children Die in Nepal Menstruation Hut
The three were the latest victims of a centuries-old tradition of banishing menstruating women and girls from their family homes, despite Nepal’s criminalizing the practice last year.
Saudi Woman Who Tried to Flee Family Says, ‘They Will Kill Me’
Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun slipped away from her family in Kuwait, and made it all the way to Thailand. There, her hopes of making it to Australia were foiled.
Times Insider: Hearing Divorce Cases on a Sidewalk in Niger, as Women Assert Their Power
The testimony I listened to — before a judge sitting on a sheepskin rug, as cars, motorbikes and sheep passed by — could have been aired by annoyed wives in courtrooms, or living rooms, anywhere in the world.
A Quiet Revolution: More Women Seek Divorces in Conservative West Africa
Frustrated by their husbands’ inability to earn a living, and in a society where basic views on relationships have changed, women are asserting more control over their marriages.