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“Indonesia: New law in Aceh makes adultery punishable by stoning”

This a call to action and informative post by the Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) international solidarity network and the Global Campaign to Stop Killing and Stoning Women (SKSW) with regard to a set of regressive new laws introduced in Aceh, Indonesia on 14 September 2009. Indonesia's...

“Indonesia’s emerging Muslim feminism: women leaders on equality, inheritance and other gender issues”
This article covers the diversity of opinions among Javanese women concerning Islamic teaching that influence women’s lives such as covering the head, women’s share of inheritance, and polygyny.
“Innovations in rural land policy and tenure in Southeast Asia”
Since the early 1980s land administration system projects have revolved around delivering and formalizing ‘old type’ tenures derived from stable legal orders and institutional recognition. Land administration designs and conventional tenure typologies are often engineered to suit assimilation of...
“Interview: The Quran doesn’t support patriarchy.”

Asma Barlas is a reformist religious scholar of Islam, from Pakistan based in the US, who argues that stoning is un-Islamic based on the fact that it is not in the Quran. This is just one document that presents her views on this. Others are on her website,...

“IRAN/death penalty: A state terror policy”

FIDH’s report documents and denounces the use of death penalty in Iran as part of a state policy of general repression aimed at creating a climate of terror among the population. The report was partially financed by the European Union.

“Iran: End executions by stoning”

Amnesty International uses a primarily human rights based framework to detail theissue of stoning in Iran as well as the Stop Stoning Forever Campaign. Amnesty International calls on the Iranian government to abolish immediately and totally executions by stoning and to impose a moratorium on the...

“Iranian Judge Talks About Stoning”

This is an interview with Judge Aslanpour, a judge of a high ranking court.

“Iran’s Senior Clerics Say Death by Stoning Could be Stopped”

This article states that the prominent cleric Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi issued a fatwa stating that stoning was not the only punishment for adultery, opening the path for parliamentary efforts to ban the practice. 

“Is culture an obstacle to African economic development?”
The author states: “The central question addressed in this paper is the following: to what extent the governance problems of SSA have something to do with the cultural patrimony inherited by African states and countries, culture being understood as “those customary beliefs and values that ethnic,...
“Islam and Women’s Sexual Health and Rights in Senegal”

The objective of this study is to analyse the tensions between conceptualizations about Islam, women's sexual health and rights in Senegal. Sexual rights are defined here as the right to choose a partner, the right to enjoy sex without fear of violence or disease, and the right to physical...