Law reform

A temporary constitution for Iraq has finally been agreed after days of talks by the country's interim leaders.

The report below raises a number of questions about both the circulation of unconfirmed news and the means of ensuring gender justice in the judicial system.

This digest contains summaries of some of the key cases in which gender and culture have coincided in the British courts, mainly since the 1970s, but including some that date back to the 19th century.

L'adoption au Maroc d'une profonde réforme du droit des femmes, dans un climat de consensus politique, constitue une rare exception dans un monde musulman où la condition féminine est l'objet d'un combat acharné entre modernistes et islamistes radicaux.