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7/11/2006
Israel/Palestine: The latest issue of the Assiwar newsletter is now available (Arabic only)
This edition includes articles on the war on Lebanon, feminist therapy, sexual harassment at the workplace; an interview with a woman refugee from Sah’mata, a poem on a victim of honour crime and the Assiwar six-monthly report (January - June 2006).
7/11/2006
Iran: Women calling for equal rights beaten, arrested in Tehran
Police dispersed the protesters who were calling for a ban on polygamy, equal child custody rights, and within marriage, freedom for women to work where they please and to travel freely.
7/11/2006
Iran: 'Stop Stoning Forever' Campaign
6/11/2006
International: Second International Congress of Islamic Feminism
WLUML networkers participated in the recent congress in Barcelona on 3-5 November 2006 which focussed on major issues with relation to the implementation of Shari'a and family laws in countries with a Muslim population.
6/11/2006
Sri Lanka: Impunity for women's human rights violations in Sri Lanka
An Interview with Sunila Abeysekera, Executive Director, INFORM, Sri Lanka.
5/11/2006
Iraq: Meeting of the Iraqi women's movement
Details of a recent strategic meeting of the Iraqi women's movement, involving most of the active alliances of women's networks in Iraq.
4/11/2006
Serbia: Open letter to the Serbian Parliament
An open letter by Women in Black Belgrade to the Serbian Parliament related to the 2005 draft resolution ‘Women, Peace, and Security,’ on the participation of women in peace-building and deciding issues of peace from a feminist standpoint.
3/11/2006
Uzbekistan: Divorce system works against Uzbek women
Laws give women equal rights, but state institutions work to prevent them getting a divorce.
3/11/2006
Philippines: Demand a fair trial in the Subic rape case
2/11/2006
USA: Father jailed for FGM
A man has been sentenced to 10 years in jail for the genital mutilation of his two-year-old daughter, in what is said to be first such case in the US.