Sisters in Islam (SIS) is shocked that its application for Revision on Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno's case was turned down by the Assistant Registrar of the Kuantan Syariah High Court on 2 October.
Three Iranian women human rights campaigners, including human rights lawyer and WLUML Council member, Shadi Sadr, received the Lech Walesa Prize, in Gdansk, Poland on Monday.
Founder member of AWARE, anthropologist and feminist, Vivienne Wee argues that we should all be concerned about the caning sentence passed on Madam Kartika in Pehang state.
As lawmakers struggle to form a government three months after Lebanon's parliamentary elections, women's rights activists await the opening of parliament to debate a new bill on domestic violence.
Break the rules of fasting is "haram" (forbidden) for Muslims in Morocco and can be punished by a sentence of one to six months in prison and fines of almost 100 euros, according to Article 222 of the Moroccan Penal Code.
HRW called on the Yemeni government to investigate responsibility for any attacks on civilians, and urged all parties to the armed conflict in the region to respect the prohibition under international law against targeting civilians.
The country's militias -- the same ones that spent years waging a sectarian civil war -- have found a new, less apparent target: men suspected of being gay.
