- “A group of clerics in Pakistan’s northwestern Upper Kohistan district . . . declared in a decree that women’s campaigning for votes ahead of the upcoming national elections was ‘against the Islamic law.'”
- Bangladesh continues to witness controversy and protests over the issue of transgenderism, and “last year, clerics at the Hathazari Madrasa, one of the oldest and largest madrasas located in southeast Chattogram district, declared transgender[ism] as haram (forbidden).”