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31/1/2008
Iran: Zanan women's magazine ordered to close after 16 years
On Tuesday word emerged that Iran's leading women's magazine has been ordered to close.
31/1/2008
UK: British government to set up a Muslim Women's Advisory Group
The group will include prominent Muslim women to advise the government on rooting out extremism, and to brief on Muslim women's issues.
31/1/2008
Morocco: "The gaze of strangers: Morocco, male love and modernity"
The new-media exposure of homosexual activity in the Muslim world highlights the paradoxes of its collision with modernity, says KA Dilday.
31/1/2008
Saudi Arabia: Women’s Rights Body in Pipeline
Women’s rights activists in the Kingdom are eagerly anticipating the establishment of Ansar Al-Marah — the first civil society dedicated to supporting women’s rights in Saudi Arabia.
31/1/2008
International: The Safe Abortion Action Fund
Each year, an estimated 19 million women and girls, faced with unintended or unwanted pregnancy, risk the deadly consequences of unsafe abortion.
31/1/2008
Iraq: Interview: Judge Mohammed Oreibi al-Khalifa, the Anfal trial, and rape as torture
The Anfal decision, as it is known, named six of Saddam's highest officials as responsible for the genocidal campaign that left hundreds of Kurdish people dead. It also designated rape as a form of torture.
30/1/2008
Kyrgyzstan: Madrassa graduates strive to teach in state education system
The Kyrgyz government shows little sign of giving into such uncompromising demands and appears committed to the separation of church and state.
30/1/2008
International: Call for proposals: “Family Law Reform and Women’s Rights in Muslim Countries"
Rights & Democracy is issuing a call for proposals for the conference “Family Law Reform and Women’s Rights in Muslim Countries: Perspectives and Lessons learned” to be held in Kabul, Afghanistan, April 2008.
30/1/2008
Egypt: Court Prohibits Withholding Documents from Baha'is
The decision overturned the government's policy of forcing Baha'i Egyptians to choose one of the three state-recognized religions of Islam, Christianity and Judaism as a prerequisite for obtaining identification documents.
30/1/2008
Palestine: Aswat hosts a lecture by Dr. Samar Habib
Aswat - Palestinian Gay Women will host a lecture by Dr. Samar Habib from Australia, on 3 February 2008.