Quoted: A lawyer for a Saudi rape victim sentenced to 200 lashes and jail says this contravenes Islamic law.

this is really sad if you ever have to choose between $$$ and a daughter!

"Why pay 50,000 rupees to your new in-laws when you can pay 500 rupees for an abortion?"

Quoted: India's rising new wealth is accentuating old attitudes to female babies, reports the BBC's Nick Bryant.

Nour, who was recently made WFO president after the previous president, Senar Muhammad, was killed by religious zealots on 17 May, said the WFO’s effectiveness was being restricted by the day.

Quoted: Haifaa Nour, 33-year-old president of the Women’s Freedom Organisation (WFO), one of the few women’s rights organisations in Iraq, said the threatening letters she had ...

"...Parents have taken to demanding "absurd" amounts of money and other commodities from their in-laws. "It is not surprising that many parents are looking to the bride-price as one way to make ends meet," he said.

Quoted: The dowry, a cultural practice, "has ceased to be a social problem and now needs to be seen from an economic point of view, with ...

Quoted: "The social frameworks were destroyed in many cases by urbanisation," said Kher al-Baz, a Bedouin social worker and social planning expert. "This process brought about ...