On 30th of March 2016, the news network Al Jazeera reported that the French Minister for Women’s Rights, Laurence Rossignol, likened Muslim women who wear Hijab to American "Negroes" who accepted slavery.

Wilayah Jordan: Women's Lecture, "Facts of CEDAW!"

The Russian intelligence agencies raided and searched the houses of nine Muslim women in the town of Almetyevsk in Tatarstan on 24th March 2016 and arrested 3 from amongst them. They were then transferred to solitary confinement with the charge of being affiliated to Hizb ut Tahrir.

Saudi Arabia has expressed regret and sorrow for the current problems experienced by women in many parts of the world, mentioning the violation of Palestinian and Syrian women’s human rights and calling the “international community” to eradicate ‘such crimes and inhumane practices’ and to ‘hold accountable those who commit them’.