Two years on from the Egyptian uprising, this historical event has not delivered the hopes and aspirations that the thousands of women who played a pivotal role to topple Mubarak and his regime. The women of Egypt today continue to live under the shadow of a military dictatorship that has brutally assaulted female protestors and violated their honour with impunity.

On Tuesday 15th January 2013, Reuters reported that a fire broke out in a tent for Syrian refugees in South Eastern Turkey killing a pregnant woman and three of her children. According to Turkish officials, the fire at the Telhamut refugee camp in Turkey's Sanliurfa province was caused by an electric heater in the family's tent. In December, four children died in a fire in the same camp...

Hizb ut Tahrir organized a momentous International Women's Conference in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Saturday the 22nd of December 2012 entitled, "The Khilafah "Caliphate": Protecting Women from Poverty and Enslavement." Today a summary booklet was published detailing key points presented during the talks that day. The conference featured nine speeches as well as testimonials, and questions and comments from the audience.

The Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in coordination with Hizb ut Tahrir Indonesia have organized this momentous International Women's Conference today, attended by over 1500 influential women from all corners of the globe to address the desperate poverty and soul-destroying exploitation afflicting millions of women across the world and globally under the capitalist system and all other man-made models of governance.