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13/3/2008
Sudan: Sanaa Awadkareem: Our collective tragedy
Sanaa Awadkareem was forced into marriage and then disfigured with acid by her estranged husband.
12/3/2008
Saudi Arabia: Saudi women make video protest
Saudi women's rights activists have posted on the web a video of a woman at the wheel of her car, in protest at the ban on female drivers in the kingdom.
11/3/2008
Saudi Arabia: Rizana Case Moves to Supreme Judicial Council
The Cassation Court in Riyadh has sent the case of a Sri Lankan maid, who was sentenced to death last year for allegedly murdering a four-month-old baby in her care, to the Supreme Judicial Council, the Kingdom’s final appeals court.
10/3/2008
International: WLUML statement: "Women's Human Rights are Universal"
WLUML's statement on the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
10/3/2008
International: "No Cultural Justifications for Violence Against Women"
Statement of the Global Campaign to Stop Killing and Stoning Women on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
9/3/2008
Malaysia: Essay: "The Threat to Secular Democracy In Malaysia"
Farish A. Noor argues that "Any attack on the very idea of secularism is therefore an attack on the value of universal equality itself..."
8/3/2008
Iran: Iranian man to pay wife a 124,000-rose dowry
An Iranian court has ordered a man to give his wife the 124,000 roses that he promised in her dowry, after she filed a complaint to claim it, reports say.
7/3/2008
UK: Lawmakers Vote to Scrap Law Against Christian Blasphemy
In a historic break with tradition, Britain's House of Lords voted on Wednesday to repeal laws making it a crime to commit blasphemy against Christianity.
7/3/2008
International: International women leaders discuss security and women's empowerment
"Female heads of states, ministers, and heads of international organisations, business leaders, and civil society activists will discuss the twin themes of security and women's empowerment."
7/3/2008
Afghanistan: Exhibit of work by female artists in Kabul
Seven years ago, the Taliban would have torn these paintings to pieces. The 93 works show the emotions and images of a war-torn country in which women are still deeply oppressed. They depict war and weaponry, violence, entrapment, hopelessness - and hope.