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20/3/2007
United Kingdom: Schools allowed to ban full-face veils
Schools will be able to ban pupils from wearing full-face veils (niqab) on security, safety or learning grounds under new uniforms guidance issued by ministers.
20/3/2007
UPDATE: Iran: Last two women human rights defenders released from prison on heavy bail
Shadi Sadr and Mahboubeh Abasgholizadeh were released from prison on Monday. However, the charges against the two women have not been dropped and the bail has been set at an exorbitant rate. Update to Iran: Offices of two remaining prisoners shut down by the Revolutionary Court
 

 
19/3/2007
Egypt: Egypt appoints first female judges
Thirty-one women chosen among members of the administrative bar and government lawyers.
16/3/2007
Iraq: Iraqi women - Four years after the Invasion
Dr. Nadje Al-Ali assesses the current situation of women in Iraq
16/3/2007
Afghanistan: Marriage contract approved by the Supreme Court of Afghanistan
After years of lobbying by networkers and activists, a standardized 'nikahnama' (marriage contract) has been approved, with the potential of curbing forced and child marriages.
16/3/2007
Serbia: Women in Black denounce the vandalization of activist Vesna Pešić's home.
Last week, the apartment of Vesna Pešić, a national assembly member, antiwar activist, and human rights defender, was vandalized.
16/3/2007
Germany: Islam and Identity in Germany - the Crisis Group issues new report
"The fundamental problems of Turkish Germans and other Muslims are rooted in disfranchisement, social discrimination and the lack of economic and political integration, not religion."
16/3/2007
UPDATE: Iran: Offices of two remaining prisoners shut down by the Revolutionary Court

The NGO offices of Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh and Shadi Sadr, the two Iranian activists still imprisoned after women's peaceful demonstration in Tehran on 4 March, were closed down by the Revolutionary Court on Thursday evening. Update to Iran: Campaign to Free Women's Rights Defenders

 
13/3/2007
Palestine: LGBTQ group Aswat celebrates five years of activism
On the 28th of March 2007, Aswat celebrates five fruitful years of engaging in social change and raising awareness in the Palestinian community at their conference in Haifa, "Home and Exile in Queer Identity".
13/3/2007
UPDATE: Iran: Two women's rights defenders now in solitary confinement