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29/8/2007
Singapore: Can a woman head a Muslim family?
"Refining Muslim laws should not stop at organ transplant but include women's roles in the family."
29/8/2007
India: Attacks on Taslima Nasrin part of a pattern of repression by non-state fundamentalist forces
Editorial: "The attack on Taslima Nasreen in Hyderabad on August 9, 2007 by legislators belonging to the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) is yet another instance of the steady criminalisation of politics in the country."
28/8/2007
International: AWID Young Women’s Institute on Challenging and Resisting Religious Fundamentalisms
Call for participants to AWID's Young Women’s Institute on Challenging and Resisting Religious Fundamentalisms, November 18th-21st 2007, in Istanbul, Turkey.
28/8/2007
India: Film screening: "City Walls - My Own Private Tehran"
The Delhi Film Archive with History Society and Gender Forum Ramjas College present "City Walls - My Own Private Tehran", 87 minutes, Iran. A film by Afsar Sonia Shafie (present for the screening).
28/8/2007
Afghanistan: Women reluctant to seek marital redress through the courts
"The number of women who dare to file for divorce and separation is very limited, and restricted only to Kabul and a few major cities," said Fawzia Siddiqui, a member of parliament.
28/8/2007
Nigeria: Defending the rights of young women in academic establishments in Nigeria
BAOBAB for Women’s Human Rights's Strategy Team for Violence against Women was inaugurated on 18 July 2007 to deliberate on all forms of violence against women and strategize on the best approaches to consolidate BAOBAB’s work on curbing this menace.
28/8/2007
Azerbaijan: Gender and feminism in Azerbaijan
An overview of gender and feminist organizing in post-Soviet Azerbaijan.
27/8/2007
India: Death of famed Urdu novelist, Quratulain Hyder
Quratulain Hyder (1927-2007) passed away at the age of 80 in New Delhi and was buried at the cemetery of Jamia Millia Islamia University where she had taught for a while.
27/8/2007
USA: Op-Ed: "Fringe Evangelicals Distort US Military Policy"
"The concerns of some within the military are that not only do fundamentalist Christian public pronouncements seep into top-ranking military officials, but their beliefs can infect the decision-making of those officials."
27/8/2007
Mauritania: Activists declare new anti-slavery law not sufficient for real change
The Mauritanian government must take additional measures to ensure a new law criminalizing slavery has an effect, human rights activists say.