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8/3/2007
International Women's Day: Shirin Ebadi and Irene Khan call for end to discrimination against women in Iran
An open letter from Nobel Peace Prize Laureates on the need to end discriminatory practices against women.
8/3/2007
UPDATE: Iran: All but three women activists freed
6/3/2007
Iran: Arrests of women may be an attempt to prevent International Women's Day calls for equality
Amnesty International today called for the immediate and unconditional release of over 30 women activists who were arrested on Sunday, 4 March while staging a peaceful demonstration in Tehran.
6/3/2007
UPDATE: Iran: Amnesty International joins in support of activists arrested in Tehran
5/3/2007
Iran: Women activists detained following peaceful protest
33 women activists were arrested in front of the Revolutionary Court on Saturday March 3, 2007.
5/3/2007
Iran: Campaign to Free Women's Rights Defenders
4/3/2007
Reclaiming history: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies produces 40-volume work on Muslim women scholars and prayer leaders.
Mohammad Akram Nadwi, a 43-year-old Sunni alim, or religious scholar, has rediscovered a long-lost tradition of Muslim women teaching the Qur'an, transmitting hadith (deeds and sayings of the Prophet Muhammad) and even making Islamic law as jurists.
4/3/2007
Iran: Iranian women activists arrested at peaceful protest over the weekend.
Dozens of the women's rights movement activists were arrested in front of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran.
28/2/2007
Algeria: Women's rights organization, AFEPEC, given formal notice to evacuate their premises
The Association Féminine pour l’Epanouissement de la Personne et l’Exercice de la Citoyenneté (AFEPEC) has campaigned for women's rights for over 20 years. On 6 Feb. AFEPEC was ordered to leave the premises they have occupied since 2003.
27/2/2007
Pakistan: Women's Action Forum issues statement on last week's murder of Zille Huma
Women activists and civil society members in Pakistan issue a public statement on the gender-based killing of the Punjab provincial Minister of Social Welfare.