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1/8/2007
Qatar: More Qatari women join workforce but obstacles remain
Though Qatari nationals account for only around 12 per cent of the total labour force, more Qatari women are working outside the home.
1/8/2007
Iraq: Military Prostitution and the Iraq Occupation: Privatizing Women
Anti-war activist Debra McNutt argues, "It is our responsibility as Americans to stop our military's abuses of women, by ending the occupation."
31/7/2007
Canada: Statement by Homa Arjomand against religious schools in the public system
"We declare that the rights of the child should take precedence over any national, racial, economic, political, ideological, and religious consideration or interest..."
30/7/2007
Kashmir: Islamist women's group encourages others to carry knives
An Islamist women's separatist group in Jammu and Kashmir said yesterday it would begin training Muslim women in martial arts and called on women to carry daggers to fend off sexual attacks by soldiers.
25/7/2007
International: The Montréal Principles: as adopted at a meeting of experts in December 2002 in Montréal, Canada.
These principles guide the interpretation and implementation of the guarantees of non-discrimination and equal exercise and enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights, found in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
25/7/2007
International: The WISE initiative: "Women's Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equity"
Muslim women, who will meet in Malaysia later this year, are pursuing a 10-year plan for advancing women's worldwide leadership within Islam.
24/7/2007
Afghanistan: Women in Herat are hungry for education
Women in the western city of Herat are flocking to literacy classes, which are transforming their lives.
24/7/2007
Middle East: New technologies and women in Arab countries: a forest of concepts, a complex reality
"Human Rights Watch holds that internet empowers people in the exercise of their right “to seek, receive and impart information and ideas regardless of frontiers” and in the Arab region...the increase of users is one of the strongest in the world."
23/7/2007
Kyrgyzstan: An interview with Bermet Akayeva, daughter of ex-president Askar Akayev
Bermet Akayeva warns against an increasingly Islamist state and the erosion of secularism.
22/7/2007
USA: UPDATE: Speaker Nancy Pelosi issues a statement of support for the Japanese 'Comfort Women' Resolution
"Out of 200,000 women that were exploited as comfort women by the Japanese Imperial Army, only a few hundred are still alive. This resolution calls on the government of Japan to accept responsibility for the coercion of young