On August 27, the Official Gazette announced that women serving in the Turkish National Police will be able to wear head scarves. The regulation notes that the headscarf must match the colour of the uniform and must be plain, without any patterns.

In a scathing criticism of the Pakistani elite, the former director of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for Pakistan Marc-André Franche, said the only way a critical change could happen in the country was when the influential, the politicians and the wealthy, would sacrifice short term, individual and family interests for the benefit of the nation.

The 13th of August marked the 60th anniversary of Tunisia’s Personal Status Code (PSC) introduced in 1956 by the staunch secular dictator Habib Bourguiba.

Wilayah Jordan: Women's Section, "Children's Graduation Ceremony of the Holy Quran"