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24/6/2009
International: Positioning Sexuality in Development
While one could think that aspects relating to sexuality would come into this debate as one of the key dimensions of human development, main obstacles remain, which make it difficult to more fully incorporate sexuality as development priority.
24/6/2009
Somalia: Al Shabaab impose brutal version of 'Islamic law'
On Thursday, the insurgents used long knives to cut off a hand and a foot each from four young men in Mogadishu as punishment for theft, witnesses said.
23/6/2009
Indonesia: Feminist's memoir resonates with youth
The rise of religious fundamentalism and the prevalence of conservative values, such as a belief in the primacy of men over women, have led many people to hold a negative perception of Islam in Indonesia.
23/6/2009
Iran: A women's rebellion
They helped bring down the shah – and 30 years on they refuse to be cowed by Iran's Islamic regime.
23/6/2009
France: Move to ban wearing of the burqa
Five years after France prohibited the wearing of the Islamic headscarf in public schools, a movement is gathering momentum here for a more radical measure: outlawing the wearing of the burqa in public.
21/6/2009
Egypt: Law allocates 64 parliamentary seats for women
This law allocating seats for women in the People's Assembly has come after more than 25 years of women's numbers decreasing in the parliament.
21/6/2009
Iran: Statement by 250 Members of the Women’s Movement
Zhila Bani-Yaghoub and her spouse, Bahman Amouiee, are among the undersigned but have since been arrested and are currently among the detainees.
21/6/2009
UPDATE: UN: Traditional values resolution deferred
Faced with a significant lack of consensus around its “traditional values” resolution, Russia announced that there were “still issues to be addressed” and that the resolution would not be presented for a vote, but deferred until the September session.
21/6/2009
Turkey: Making the state protect women
The state's duty to protect the right to life has been applied in a domestic violence context for the first time in Turkey.
21/6/2009
United States: The Virginity Movement
The Obama administration has brought some measure of sanity to public health policy, cutting most abstinence-only education funding from the 2010 budget. But abstinence organizations are not going away. In fact, they're getting organized.