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7/3/2008
Iraq: Women's Day in Iraq: "Surviving Somehow Behind a Concrete Purdah"
"In today's Iraq, women are being killed by militia groups for not conforming to strict Islamist ways."
6/3/2008
Iran: UPDATE: Parvin Ardalan prevented from leaving the country
Iranian feminist and journalist Parvin Ardalan was prevented from leaving Iran on Sunday to travel to Sweden where she was to receive the 2007 Olof Palme Prize in Stockholm.
6/3/2008
Israel: Man sentenced to 16 years imprisonment for 'honour' killing
An Israeli court sentenced a man to 16 years in prison on Tuesday for aiding in the so-called honor killing of his sister. The case was unusual in that the women of the family broke their code of silence and testified against the man.
6/3/2008
Afghanistan: Interview with women's rights defender, Wazhma Frogh
"Wazhma Frogh, an Afghan, uses her religion to press for women's rights – and development agencies take note."
6/3/2008
UK: Missing girls forced into marriages
More than 30 girls are missing from schools in Bradford despite efforts to track them down, MPs have been told.
5/3/2008
Middle East: NGOs, Audio-visual council condemn charter limiting freedom of speech
34 Arab human rights organisations issued a "total rejection" of the document that aims to impose new restrictions on the Arab Satellite channels.
3/3/2008
Germany: Volunteers rescue women from arranged marriages, 'honour' killing
A volunteer rescue organisation in Germany has sheltered more than 100 Muslim women who fear they will be killed if they do not go through with marriages that their families have arranged for them.
1/3/2008
Egypt: First Women to Conduct Marriages in Egypt
Amal Soliman has become Egypt's first woman able to perform Muslim marriages.
28/2/2008
Kurdistan: "Suffering Without A Nation: The Plight of Kurdish Women in the Diaspora"
Lys Anzia of the Women News Network (WNN) looks at the suffering of Kurdish women and the dramatic increase in their acts of self-destruction.
28/2/2008
Pakistan: Pakistan lifts YouTube ban
Pakistan says it has lifted a ban on YouTube, after the website removed cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, adding that an earlier worldwide outage sparked by its actions was unintentional.