The BBC reported on April 25 that Kenyan women are often violated by private water sellers who exploit them due to their circumstances of poverty. The current government structures are such that water demands are not being met and private unregulated entities are absorbing the market share with their own street services. The unscrupulous water sellers have no moral objection to harassing women and physically violating them.

Officials in Bangladesh threaten to confiscate Rohingya refugees' identity documents and forcibly transfer them to a remote flood-prone island, if they violate an arbitrary ban on schools they have set up, according to Human Rights Watch. A report issued by the organization said that refugees need identification documents called "data cards" issued by the United Nations refugee agency in cooperation with the Bangladesh government to access basic aid and services.

The month of Rajab marks the tragic anniversary of the loss of the Khilafah (Caliphate) more than 100 years ago in the Hijri calendar. This leading state ruled by Islam had always stood as a guard over the dignity, security and Shariah rights of women in the Muslim lands and beyond. Following the fall of the Khilafah, the lives of women in the region and Muslim women across the world...

Three children died in refugee camps in the wake of severe winter storms in Syria and neighbouring countries. These storms worsened the living conditions of those displaced in Syria and those living in refugee camps in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey.