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2/9/2006
Iran: 'Divorce Iranian Style' now available online
This 2001 documentary by Kim Longinotto is about women and divorce in Iran set in a family law court in Tehran. It focuses on several cases of women trying to divorce their husbands and can now be viewed online.
1/9/2006
Syria: Islamic revival led by women tests Syria’s secularism
In Damascus women who identify one another by the distinctive way they tie their head scarves gather for meetings of an exclusive and secret Islamic women’s society known as the Qubaisiate.
31/8/2006
UK: Women's unfinished agenda
What does feminism offer peace, economic and social justice and human rights campaigners? The 2006 International meeting of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) invites you to its International Seminar on 9 September 2006.
31/8/2006
UPDATE: UN: Act now for UN reform and gender equality
30/8/2006
Bangladesh: Secularism and this 'moderate Muslim' state
Law Minister Moudud Ahmed surprised us the other day when he informed the country that the people of Bangladesh had never accepted secularism as a principle of state. And then he surprised us even more.
30/8/2006
Russia: Religion enters Russian schools
The Orthodox Christian religion is being made a compulsory school subject in four of Russia's regions.
29/8/2006
Iran: Retrial for one more woman saved from stoning
The Iranian Head of Judiciary commuted the stoning sentence of a 35 year old woman, Hajieh Ismailvand.
29/8/2006
Sri Lanka: Stop the war - we have a right to live without fear
People to People Dialogue for Peace and Sustainable Development is an initiative that is being built among farmers, urban, rural and plantation workers, fisher people and women’s organizations in the South, North, East and the Hill country.
29/8/2006
Iran: Campaign to collect one million signatures demanding changes to discriminatory laws
28/8/2006
Fiji: A refreshing approach to family law
RRRT, in partnership with the Fiji Women’s Rights Movement (FWRM), conducted a refresher course on Fiji’s new Family Law Act for over 30 of our local Community Paralegals and key NGO partners in late May 2006.