Friday 30th July 2010
women
Wednesday 17th February 2010 12:00
By Lydia Smears
Dartmoor: 30km trek challenge
An all-woman team is taking part in the Shelterbox Dartmoor challenge this year, thanks to the development group Evolution.
The 30-kilometre mile trek across Dartmoor is on September 11/12. It includes five teams entered by Evolution, one of which is for women only.
The idea is to to give women the chance to join in if they do not feel comfortable in a mixed group.
Wednesday 3rd February 2010 16:46
By Zoe Graham
Women wear the niqab in Marseille commercial street
reuters pictures
The French government has refused citizenship to a foreign national who forced his wife to wear the Islamic veil.
French Immigration Minister Eric Besson signed a decree rejecting a man's citizenship application after it emerged that he had ordered his wife to cover herself with a head-to-toe veil.
Laurent Chambon interview
