News: News agency Tatar-inform reported about the all-Russian conference "Islam-Online" that took place on the 4th of April in the capital of Republic of Tatarstan, Kazan. Approximately 100 representatives of electronic media from different regions of Russia gathered in this conference. Spiritual Board of Muslims of Tatarstan that organized this activity dominated the aim of this conference as consolidation of Muslim journalists to propagate the values of the so-called "traditional…

On 9th January 2013, for the first time the International Labor Organization (ILO) launched its global report related to domestic workers around the world. The report entitled "Domestic Workers Around the World" states that there are currently about 53 million domestic workers in the world, of which 83 percent are women and girls, and many of them are migrant workers. This means that more than 43 million women have been…

News: LAHAD DATU: Eight people who were among a group of Sulu gunmen involved in a stand-off and subsequent attacks against Malaysian security forces, were charged here Wednesday with terrorism and waging war against the Yang Di-Pertuan Agong. No plea was recorded from the eight men, from southern Philippines, after each of them was charged under Section 130 KA of the Penal Code with launching terrorism acts and under Section…

The objectification and dehumanisation of the female identity is by no means a new phenomenon in western liberal culture. However the media agenda to use and abuse the image of women was admitted in no uncertain terms during a conference at ‘Advertising Week Europe' this month. In a panel discussion on the 19th of March 2013, Alex Bilmes, high profile editor of the men's magazine ‘Esquire' said that, "The women…