Egypt bans female circumcision
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Egypt has banned all female circumcision after the death this week of a 12-year-old girl undergoing the widely practised procedure.
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An Islamic court in northern Nigeria on Wednesday quashed a death-by-stoning sentence against a pregnant 18-year-old girl who had been condemned for adultery.
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A Egyptian court says the American University of Cairo cannot ban the Islamic face covering from its campus.
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Two Muslim girls in France who refused to remove their head scarves in class have been expelled from their schools today as officials began enforcing the country&#39;s ban on religious symbols.
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Egypt's ruling party conference yielded no major changes. But formerly taboo issues are being aired.
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Turkey's parliament has approved two constitutional amendments easing the ban on women wearing headscarves in universities. Send us your views.
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An international conference on female genital mutilation in Africa ends with a fresh call to ban the practice.
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The Turkish parliament early Thursday adopted a constitutional amendment allowing women to wear Islamic headscarves in universities, a controversial move that still had to be ratified, assembly deputy speaker Nevzat Pakdil announced.
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Turkey's parliament on Saturday approved the first of two constitutional amendments that would lift a decades-old ban on Islamic head scarves in universities despite the fierce opposition of the secular establishment.
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Egypt's top Muslim clerics say Islam does not regard the practice of female genital mutilation as mandatory.
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A German court  rules a ban on Muslim  teachers wearing headscarves in schools applies to Christian nuns, reports say.
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New York City health officials have  gone to court to stop a rabbi from performing a type of ritual  circumcision they believe may have led to the death of a baby  boy from herpes.
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Mozambique is set to end its blanket ban on abortion after the government acknowledged that current legislation was endangering the lives of women in one of Africa&#39;s most impoverished nations.
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for the lifting of a ban on women wearing headscarves at state universities. Erdogan's Islamist-rooted AK Party began drafting a new constitution after its landslide election victory in July.  The separation of religion and state enshrined in the current constitution is one of the key issues in the debate.
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HAGAZ, Eritrea  - For 3-year-old Amira, a law banning female genital mutilation in Eritrea came too late.
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A Cairo court ruled on Saturday that a private Egyptian university can not ban a visiting student from entering its premises in full Islamic veil, a judicial source said.
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Police in Burkina Faso arrest 14 people for carrying out female genital mutilation on young girls.