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18/11/2006
Pakistan: Repercussions of 'vice and virtue' Bill
A WLUML networker responds to recent news that the provincial assembly of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) passed the Hasba Bill to suppress vice, with a unit led by a cleric and a police force to implement its orders.
17/11/2006
International: The diversity of dress
A presentation by Aisha Lee Shaheed, an independent writer-researcher and WLUML networker upon the Canadian launch of the "Dress Codes and Modes: Women's dress in some Muslim countries and communities" exhibition in August 2006.
17/11/2006
Nicaragua: UN committee complains about influence of Catholic church
In a letter to the Nicaraguan National Assembly, Silvia Pimentel, vice chairman of CEDAW, criticized the influence of “the hierarchies of the Catholic Church and some Evangelical Churches” in the draft reforms of Nicaragua’s penal code.
16/11/2006
Palestine: Authorities must address violence against women and girls
Human Rights Watch reports that a significant number of women and girls are victims of violence perpetrated by family members & intimate partners. While there is increasing recognition of the problem, little action has been taken to address these abuses.
16/11/2006
Pakistan: National Assembly passes Women’s Protection Bill
The National Assembly passed the Protection of Women (Criminal Laws Amendment) Bill to reform Pakistan’s rape laws which includes several amendments to sections 7, 8, 9 and 12 of the draft, as proposed by a committee of religious scholars.
15/11/2006
Pakistan: Pakistan votes to amend rape laws
Pakistan's national assembly has voted to amend the country's strict Sharia laws on rape and adultery.
15/11/2006
Iraq: Sectarian violence forces mixed couples to divorce
Because of escalating sectarian violence, marriages between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims in Iraq are under threat.
15/11/2006
Iraq: Seeing the world through a gender sensitive lens
Women in war and conflict zones more and more are sharing their thoughts on looking at the world in a gender sensitive lens and raising their voice to the atrocities of war and its impact on women and girls.
14/11/2006
UK: Gender as a 'particular social group'
A casenote on a recent House of Lords case on gender as a 'particular social group' under the 1951 Refugee Convention - including a striking dictum from Baroness Hale, the first female Law Lord.
13/11/2006
International: Women's Worlds 2008
Women's Worlds is a major international event to be held 3-9 July 2008, with the main goal of continuing the fight against social injustice and gender inequalities for feminist researchers, specialists, activists and internationally known public figures.