Violence against women

Un nouveau rapport d’Amnesty International documente la violence familiale contre les femmes en Turquie et le role des femmes membres d'organisations non-gouvernementales pour la combattre.
Police are reinvestigating more than 100 murders in England and Wales they suspect could be so-called honour killings, it has emerged.
The judiciary is embroiled in a simmering row with Gambia over the best way to protect girls from circumcision.
The Jordan Times says this is the third case of so-called "honour" killing in the country this week.
Marrying across the religious divide is still taboo in 21st-Century India.
Amnesty International lance une campagne mondiale pour mettre fin à la violence contre les femmes.
While its emergence as an important economic and political sector is lauded by many, the fact that this group is also experiencing an upsurge in cases of domestic violence against women is often ignored.
Prosecutors at the Special Court for Sierra Leone have asked the tribunal's trial chamber to amend all previously issued indictments to include a new crime against humanity - forced marriage.
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