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27/2/2007
Saudi Arabia: Muslimah Writers Alliance Petitions King Abdullah to Stop Forced Divorces
"Say 'No' To Forced Divorce - 'Yes' to Reforms" online petition campaign launched by women activists against forced divorce
21/2/2007
Pakistan: Pro-women's rights minister killed by known extremist
Zille Huma killed by man previously held in connection with the brutal murder of four sex workers.
20/2/2007
Bahrain: Draft Legislation Proposes to Criminalize Trafficking
Human traffickers in Bahrain will be punished with the anticipated passage of a law making trafficking a criminal act.
20/2/2007
UPDATE: Iran: Increased Pressure on Activists Involved in the One Million Signatures Campaign
16/2/2007
Pakistan's ruling party introduces bill to prohibit forced marriages
The 'Anti-Women Practices Bill' seeks to make illegal forced marriages and depriving women of their inheritance rights.
15/2/2007
Syria: 'Honour' killings denounced as un-Islamic by Syrian Grand Mufti
Murder of 16-year-old spurs the Grand Mufti of Syria to call for legal reform
14/2/2007
UN Study on the Status of Women & Freedom of Religion or Belief & Traditions
Working paper for Geneva-based NGO committee on freedom of religion or belief and NGO committee on the status of women
13/2/2007
Somalia: Somali Women Involved in HIV/AIDS Peer-Education Programme
Somali women are taking the initiative in the fight against AIDS with a programme to educate their peers in this conservative Muslim nation.
12/2/2007
Palestine: Female Activists a Force in Male-Dominated Gaza
Secular women take to the streets while Hamas harnesses more women's support
12/2/2007
The Headscarf Debate in Egypt: An Interview with Nabil Abdel-Fattah
The Egyptian Minister of Culture, Farouk Hosni, recently asserted that the growing number of headscarf wearers in Egypt must be taken as a sign of backwardness. An interview with Nabil Abdel-Fattah on the background behind the headscarf debate.