Violence against women

Karo Kari, TorTora, Siyahkari, Kala Kali "There Is No Honour In Killing" National Seminar Report

Findings from the Shirkat Gah "Women, Law and Status Programme" involving broad based and systematic research into honour crimes in Punjab, North Western Frontier Province and Sindh.

Bahrain: Safe-houses on way for abused workers

A PLAN to set up government shelters to house abused migrant workers could come into effect in the next three months.

Jordan: Family Reconciliation House to open soon

Almost six years after announcing plans to establish a shelter for battered women, Ministry of Social Development officials said on Thursday that the first Family Reconciliation House in Jordan would open in less than a month's time.

India: Threatened Existence - A Feminist analysis of the Genocide in Gujarat

The UK launch of a new report by the International Initiative for Justice in Gujarat.

حركات نسائية أردنية تخوض معركة اجتماعية وسياسية في مواجهة "المجرمين الشرفاء"

16 days of activism against gender violence

The 2003 campaign theme is "Violence Against Women Violates Human Rights: Maintaining the Momentum Ten Years After Vienna (1993-2003)."

Sweden: To ban all child marriages

Sweden is planning to ban all marriages to children under the age of 18, regardless of their nationality.

Africa: Ouagadougou Declaration on child marriages

The declaration calls upon governments to end child marriages.

Afrique: Declaration de Ouagadougou

Declaration sur le mariage de d’enfant.

Iraq: Crime puts Iraqi women under house arrest

Baghdad's female population is crushed by lawlessness under US occupation.