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21/10/2006
International: In-depth study on all forms of violence against women
WLUML networkers contributed to this UN study on violence against women, that classifies abuse against women -­ whether it happens in the home or elsewhere - as a human rights violation.
20/10/2006
Indonesia: Narrow-mindedness versus diversity
The introduction of Sharia-based regional laws in several Indonesian provinces has aggravated the sociopolitical climate in the world's most densely populated Muslim country. Yet it has also aroused resistance.
19/10/2006
International: The enemy of my enemy is not my friend - fundamentalist non state actors, democracy and human rights
This paper was presented by WLUML founder and networker Marieme Hélie-Lucas at the Asia Europe People's Forum, Helsinki, 3-6 September 2006.
18/10/2006
UK: Opinion - only a secular state can protect women's rights
It is astonishing that a Labour government has managed to lead the country into this religious quagmire.
17/10/2006
Iraq: Fight for the rights of Iraqi women
The new Constitution threatens to restore "Islamic Law" and with it a dismantling of the rights of Iraqi women.
17/10/2006
Iraq: Women meet to protect rights in the Iraqi constitution
A brief report of a conference on women's rights and personal status law recently held in Baghdad.
16/10/2006
International: Of war, siege and Lebanon - women's voices from the Middle East and South Asia
A collective online publication of leading women activists, academicians and writers, depicting their reactions to the wars and the increasing militarism in the Middle East as well as analysis of their impact on the work of women activists’.
15/10/2006
UK: The Ashiana project
Ashiana provides temporary, safe, supportive housing for south Asian, Turkish and Iranian women between the ages of 16-30 who are experiencing domestic violence as well as a safe house for young women between 16 - 25 who are at risk of forced marriage.
14/10/2006
South Africa: Fighting for gender equality
Interview with WLUML networker Rashida Manjoo about her experiences of the Gender Equality Commission of South Africa, conducted during the recent conference in Malaysia on 'Mechanisms and Legislation to Promote and Protect Gender Equality'.
13/10/2006
Somalia: Women feel power slipping
For 15 years, Somalia was ruled by clan-based strongmen, each with his own private army. Over that period of chaos, violence and war, the women of Mogadishu have risked their lives time and again -- and in the process changed their country.