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10/2/2009
Saudi Arabia: Forced Divorce – Women under Male Guardianship
A woman has been forcibly divorced on the basis of “tribal incompatibility” with her husband.
10/2/2009
Somalia: Woman defies custom by refusing FGM for her daughters
A mother tells how the type of genital mutilation practised in Somalia is full infibulation when the girls are about five to seven years old.
10/2/2009
Israel/Palestine: Feminist response to attack on Gaza
Dr. Hannah Safran of Women in Black explains how women have come together in Israel to protest the bombing of Gaza as part of a wider opposition to Israeli policy, past and present.
10/2/2009
Afghanistan: Circle of Women opens girls' school
Project Wonkhai - the NGO's first undertaking - is a girl's school in Wonkhai, a village in Afghanistan's Wardak province.
10/2/2009
Yemen: Parliamentary committee strikes down age of marriage amendment
The committee of Islamic Legislations and Sharia’a in the Yemeni Parliament has rejected a proposed Draft Law to increase the legal age of marriage to 18.
9/2/2009
Burma: Tales of increased repression, forced labour and rape
Burmese soldiers are drafting ethnic Karen villagers for forced labor and are raping women and girls.
9/2/2009
Palestine: Women's rights seriously violated during Gaza conflict
The following statement by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women was issued on 6 February 2009 in Geneva:
9/2/2009
Iraq: Minister of women’s affairs tenders resignation
Nawal al-Samaraie, minister for women’s affairs, says she lacked the resources to implement her plans to help improve women’s lives.
9/2/2009
International: UN report on Freedom of Religion and Status of Women
The UN Special Rapporteur has devoted particular attention to religion-based personal laws.
9/2/2009
Ethiopia: Early marriage of girls causes death and disability
An Inter-African Committee film about early marriage in Ethiopia focuses on the harmful effects of this traditional practice.