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30/4/2008
Lebanon: Labor Day campaign for domestic workers
A campaign to protect domestic workers from abuse and exploitation challenges employers to ‘Put Yourself in Her Shoes’.
28/4/2008
UK: Essay: "Why should Muslims put up with being stereotyped?"
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown writes, "Like everyone, we are creatures of many parts. But we are not allowed such complexities."
28/4/2008
Iran: Authorities calls for ban on Barbie doll
"In the past, Barbie dolls have been targeted by Iranian authorities bridling at their revealing dress. In public Iranian women must cover their bodily contours - a rule, correspondents point out, that Barbie conspicuously fails to follow."
28/4/2008
Iraq: Teenage girl killed for loving a British soldier
A 17-year-old Iraqi girl has been murdered by her father in an 'honour killing' after falling in love with a British soldier in Basra.
27/4/2008
International: Coalition for Sexual and Bodily Rights in Muslim Societies (CSBR) Sexuality Institute 2008
Sexual and Bodily Rights in Muslim Societies under lens at sexuality institute.
27/4/2008
Bahrain: Bahrain May Appoint Jewish Woman As Envoy To U.S.
Bahrain could be the first among several Persian Gulf states to appoint a Jewish woman as the country's ambassador to the United States.
25/4/2008
UN: UN Agencies Rally for an End to FGM Within a Generation
The agencies expressed their concern about the “medicalization” of the practice, whereby it is performed by health professionals in health facilities, and the belief that it enhances a girl's chastity and chances of marriage by controlling her sexuality.
25/4/2008
Congo: Tortured women struggle for justice
Caught up in Congo's factional warfare, many fear retaliation if they report rape, sexual mutilation.
24/4/2008
International: Muslim women rappers: "Sisterhood"
"Sisterhood" is the collective name for a mixtape project of previously unreleased songs written by young up and coming female Muslim rappers, singers and poetesses from the UK, Europe and US.
24/4/2008
Central Africa: Governments and UN must join forces to secure release of kidnapped women and children
Amnesty International called on the UN and governments in Central Africa to take immediate action to secure the release of more than 350 men, women and children thought to have been abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in recent weeks.