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8/10/2008
Iran: A car designed especially for women
Iran's biggest motor manufacturer is to take the country's gender sensitivity to new levels by producing a car specially for women.
8/10/2008
Indonesia: Muslim school opens doors to transvestites
Wearing headscarves and reciting the Koran, students at an Indonesian Islamic school look like ordinary women practicing their faith in the holy month of Ramadan, but they are actually transvestites.
7/10/2008
Kyrgyzstan: CEDAW Shadow Reports by local NGOs
Download the alternative reports submitted by civil society members.
7/10/2008
Sudan: Women arrested for wearing tight trousers
More than 35 young women wearing tight trousers have been arrested for "disturbing the peace" in south Sudan, police said on Tuesday.
6/10/2008
Uganda: "Forced marriage within the Lord’s Resistance Army, Uganda"
This paper focuses on the experiences of those women and girls forcibly married within the Lords Resistence Army (LRA) in Uganda, and their attempts to reintegrate in civilian life after captivity.
6/10/2008
UPDATE: Iran: Three women's rights advocates sent to solitary confinement
According to information received from the city of Sanandaj, women activists of the One Million Signatures Campaign Ronak Safarzadeh, Hana Abdi, and Fatemeh Goftari, have lost three weeks of visiting rights and transferred to solitary confinement.
6/10/2008
Germany: Muslim religion classes introduced in German schools
"According to the German constitution, Muslims do have a right to religious education for their children under the supervision of the state, just as Christians do. Now, for the first time, German schools will have a textbook for Islamic religion classes."
5/10/2008
China: Woman imams play indispensable role in China's largest Muslim region
“At a tiny courtyard mosque in China's most populous Muslim region, Jin Meihua leads other women in prayer and chants."
5/10/2008
France: Spurning secularism, French Muslims find haven in Catholic schools
In France, which has only four Muslim schools, some of the country’s 8,847 Roman Catholic schools have become an alternative for Muslim students who wish to wear headscarves and incorporate spirituality into their studies.
4/10/2008
Afghanistan: "Women who took on the Taliban – and lost"
Three years ago, Kim Sengupta interviewed five women who wanted to build a new Afghanistan. Today, three are dead and a fourth has fled.