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13/2/2009
UPDATE: Yemen: Minimum age for marriage set at 17
The law stipulates that no marriage is to be carried out at any age without the consent of the woman.
13/2/2009
International: Exploding the fatwa myths in the Rushdie affair
Writer on race and politics, Kenan Malik, argues that twenty years on it is time we laid to rest the myths of the Rushdie affair.
13/2/2009
Sri Lanka: Tamil women suffer the worst of war
In one of the biggest hospitals in Sri Lanka's north, many women patients wonder why they survived the fighting between the Tamil Tigers and the military that killed so many of their friends.
12/2/2009
Sierra Leone: FGM supporters kidnap four women journalists
The abduction and intimidation of four women journalists took place in the eastern city of Kenema on 6 February by members of a women’s secret society that practices female genital mutilation (FGM).
12/2/2009
Iran: Korean football fans support Iranian women's right to enter sport stadiums
Azadi Stadium, the largest football stadium in Iran, was host to a group of four Iranian women audience members who were there to watch the South Korea vs. Iran football match this week.
12/2/2009
International: Website dedicated to abandonment of FGM/C
This new website will be a resource to share documents and information about donor-supported work with a particular focus on sharing lessons learned and programs that support communities worldwide to enable them to abandon FGM/C within a generation.
12/2/2009
Palestine: CODEPINK calls for Women’s Day 2009 to be dedicated to Women of Gaza
International Women’s Day is a time when people around the globe focus on the needs and contributions of women. This year, on Sunday, March 8, 2009, women and men worldwide will commemorate the day by highlighting the plight of the women of Gaza.
11/2/2009
Iran: The erosion of women's rights and "political Islamism"
From the universities to the theatres, Iranians have a tradition of civil activism that predates the revolution.
11/2/2009
France: Pakistani man on trial for setting woman alight
Amer Mushtaq Butt, 28, doused Chahrazade Belayni in petrol and set fire to her on the street as she was leaving her home in the under-privileged Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Marne in 2005.
11/2/2009
United Kingdom: Police stop woman's forced marriage
A young woman has been saved from a forced marriage after police used new legal powers to prevent her father from taking her to Pakistan.