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8/9/2006
Saudi Arabia: Learning intolerance
Despite Saudi assurances, their religious textbooks still denigrate other faiths and cultures. These schoolbooks divide the world into believers — followers of Wahhabi Islam — and unbelievers.
8/9/2006
Saudi Arabia: Grand mosque equal access for women project
Women are about to lose their right to pray in the previously allotted/designated space for women only in view of the Ka'ba at the Grand Mosque in Makkah, Saudi Arabia.
7/9/2006
Iraq: The status of women in Iraq: an assessment of Iraq’s de jure and de facto compliance with international legal standards
The Assessment covers thematic categories: political participation, civil society and women in decision making; violence against women and the right to personal security; labor and economic rights; family and marriage; nationality; health; and education.
7/9/2006
Malaysia: Push for first gender equality bill
WLUML and the Women's Centre for Change recently organised the International Conference on Mechanisms and Legislation to Promote and Protect Gender Equality, with participants from South Africa, Australia, Hong Kong, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Iran and Germany.
6/9/2006
Iraq: Recommendations for the Iraqi Personal Status Law
As part of a series of articles about the law and its amendments, exclusively published by Niqash, Dr. Faiza Babakhan, a lawyer and legal advisor for women’s affairs and a member of parliament, outlines her recommendations.
6/9/2006
Morocco: The Women's Caravan for Full Equality, Citizenship and Development in Rural Areas
Her participation in the Caravan supported by WLUML, Najlah Atamnah of Alssiwar - The Arab Movement for Supporting Women Victims of Sexual Violence, tells us more about her experiences and the work of those involved.
5/9/2006
Iraq: Necklace a symbol of unity for Iraqi women
For Iraqi women, map-shaped necklaces have become a symbol of defiance, representing a yearning to keep the country unified.
5/9/2006
Iran: President calls for purge of liberal and secular lecturers
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's outspoken president, fired an ominous warning at the country's educated elites yesterday by calling for a purge of "liberal and secular" academics in the universities.
4/9/2006
Iraq: Independent film and television college
The first four films were completed in Amman in December 2005, were shot between the end of 2004 and October 2005. Each opens a window onto the life of ordinary Iraqis in this extraordinary time.
3/9/2006
Aceh: Women, poor suffer under 'Islamic law'
A rising moral vigilantism that has flared with the gradual implementation of Islamic law in Aceh has victimized women and the poor, according to the International Crisis Group.