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27/3/2007
International: The United Nation's International Women's Commission (IWC) issues a call to normalize relations with the new Palestinian Unity government.
The International Women's Commission for a Just and Sustainable Palestinian-Israeli Peace (IWC) was formed under the auspices of UNIFEM in concrete implementation of Resolution 1325. Their most recent press release calls to support the Unity government.
26/3/2007
Canada: The province of Québec tells women to remove their face veils or not to vote
On the eve of a provincial election, Québec's electoral officer reversed his decision to allow Muslim women to vote without having to lift their face veils to identify themselves.
26/3/2007
USA: First translation of the Qur'an by an American woman prompts debate on Qur'anic verse
"Laleh Bakhtiar had already spent two years working on an English translation of the Koran when she came upon Chapter 4, Verse 34. She nearly dropped the project right then."
24/3/2007
Israel-Syria: Druze bride cannot return to Golan Heights after her marriage
Since the late 1980s, Israel and Syria have allowed a small number of Golan Druze to cross the frontier on religious pilgrimages or to study. Women can also cross in both directions to get married - but they cannot cross back.
24/3/2007
Essay: "The Jihadism of Fools" by Fred Halliday
23/3/2007
Egypt: First Group of Female Judges Appointed
Government should now ensure women’s participation at all levels of the judiciary.
23/3/2007
Germany: A Judge in Frankfurt Cites the Qur'an in Divorce Case
'He beat her and threatened her with murder. But because husband and wife were both from Morocco, a German divorce court judge saw no cause for alarm. It's a religion thing, she argued.'
22/3/2007
Spain: Spanish Parliament Approves Women’s 'Equality Law'
Parliament passed a gender-equality bill Thursday aimed at getting more Spanish women into elected office and corporate boardrooms - and more men heating baby bottles and changing diapers.
22/3/2007
UPDATE: Iran: All women's rights activists have been released although crackdown on Iranian civil society escalates
20/3/2007
Kuwait: Kuwaiti women's society and UNIFEM organize awareness program
The Women Cultural and Social Society announced Tuesday it will organize a free awareness program for women in cooperation with the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and Freedom House organization.