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16/4/2007
Iran: UPDATE: Imprisoned women's rights activists Nahid Keshavarz and Mahboubeh Hossein Zadeh, record their experiences of imprisonment amongst other female inmates
Human rights defenders Nahid Keshavarz and Mahboubeh Hossein Zadeh, were arrested for collecting signatures in support of the "One Million Signatures Campaign" demanding changes to discriminatory laws against women in Iran.
12/4/2007
Iran: UPDATE: Update on the condition of imprisoned activists
Women's rights defenders, Mahboubeh Hossein Zadeh and Nahid Keshavarz, remain in prison: families and lawyer denied information and the opportunity to post bail
9/4/2007
Pakistan: Islamists in Pakistan issue a fatwa to minister Nilofer Bakhtiar over photo of a 'hug'
Islamic clerics at a radical mosque in Pakistan's capital have demanded the tourism minister be fired for hugging a foreign man, saying she committed a "great sin."
7/4/2007
Middle East: Beginning in Syria, women cycle across the region for peace
7/4/2007
International: civil society campaigns for UN reform and a Fifth Women's World Conference in 2010
Their interactive website is creating groundswell support for a Fifth Women’s World Conference (5WWC) that in size and influence could be a step toward a change in planetary consciousness through the active involvement of women at all levels of society.
7/4/2007
Iran: UPDATE: Human Rights Watch demands the release of two imprisoned women's rights activists
The Iranian government should immediately release two women's rights activists arrested on April 1 and end its harassment and persecution of human rights defenders, Human Rights Watch said today.
7/4/2007
Malaysia: Malaysian officials seize baby from a woman living as a Hindu
"Islamic authorities took away the baby of a Muslim woman who is living as a Hindu in defiance of the law in the latest case of religious conflict straining ties in multiethnic Malaysia, officials said Friday."
4/4/2007
Yemen: Yemeni Parliament approves the ratification of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
A letter from WLUML contacts welcomes the inclusion of Yemen as the fourth member country of the Arab League to the ICC.
4/4/2007
Germany: Judge's recent invocation of the Qur'an paves the way for a parallel Muslim society.
A recent ruling in Germany by a judge who cited the Koran underscores the dilemma the country faces in reconciling Western values with a growing immigrant population.
4/4/2007
Eritrea: Eritrea bans female genital mutilation
The information ministry has said that anybody involved in female genital mutilation (FGM) would be punished with a fine and imprisonment.