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26/6/2006
Sweden: Father jailed for mutilating daughter
A Swedish court has jailed a Somali man for four years for forcing his 13-year-old daughter to be circumcised (genitally mutilated).
25/6/2006
Pakistan: A Brit-Pak-Ahmadi spends Eid in Pakistan
No dome, no minaret, no call to prayer, just an unmarked house in a secret location. This is Eid prayers for the Ahmadiyya Muslim community of Karachi, Pakistan.
25/6/2006
Sri Lanka: Demand an end to attacks on civilians - call for investigation and prosecution
24/6/2006
International: Advanced training manual for agents of social change in human rights advocacy and the family
Edited/compiled by Cassandra Balchin, this manual uses cases (from 43 participants - Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Tanzania & Yemen) as starting points for the examination of the relationship between human rights & Islamic Legal Theory.
24/6/2006
Update: Kyrgyzstan: Continued access to abortion - safe, for now
23/6/2006
Africa: Protocol to African Charter - women in Africa
The Africa Union on Friday urged its member states to put an end to the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM), saying the ritual traumatised millions of girls and women on the continent.
22/6/2006
Kuwait: Vote your conscience, says new ruling
The Al-Ifta and Islamic Research Sector at the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs has issued a fatwa stating “no one can force any citizen, either male or female, to vote for any specific candidate.”
22/6/2006
Canada: WLUML dress codes exhbition in Vancouver - 23 June to 8 July
You are invited to view the WLUML exhibition "Dress codes & modes - women’s dress in some Muslim countries and communities."
21/6/2006
Egypt: If only there was khul ...
Egyptian women are the first in the Middle East to have gained the right to unilateral divorce through a procedure called khul. This article in the ISIM Review explores how cartoons and films now depict khul in a negative way.
20/6/2006
Sri Lanka: New phase of civilian killing must be stopped forthwith
The crisis in Sri Lanka has reached a new phase with the targeting of civilians for large scale killing and the accompanying denial of responsibility for such atrocities.