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26/3/2006
Lebanon: Women's day underscores citizenship rights proposal
International Women's Day may have passed quietly for most people, but all Lebanese - men and women - may soon have reason to celebrate if MP Ghinwa Jalloul's proposal to extend the citizenship rights to women succeeds.
25/3/2006
Egypt: Women’s unequal access to divorce in Egypt
This 62-page report documents serious human rights abuses stemming from discriminatory family laws that have resulted in a divorce system that affords separate and unequal treatment to men and women.
24/3/2006
Jordan: Jordanian women face an unequal fight for equal rights
During the past 10 years, there have been attempts to amend laws related to the rights of women in order to enhance their status and social and economic role, and protect them from violations and violence, including what are known as "honor crimes."
24/3/2006
France: France raises marriage age limit
The French parliament has raised the age at which a woman can get married - from 15 to 18 - as part of a package to combat domestic violence. The law, which aims to prevent forced marriages, makes the age limit the same as that for men.
23/3/2006
Bangladesh: He spared no one
A WLUML networker comments that this is, step by step, what happened in Algeria with GIA forbidding music, etc..., GIA armed groups taking 'taxes' from villagers, controlling whole areas and ... scaring the official army and police.
23/3/2006
Pakistan: Pakistani Taliban take control of unruly tribal belt
A powerful new militia dubbed "the Pakistani Taliban" has effectively seized control of swaths of the country's northern tribal areas in recent months, triggering alarm in Islamabad and marking a big setback in America's "war on terror".
22/3/2006
Jammu and Kashmir: The politics of rape
When it is important to celebrate women's existence & acknowledge their struggles and activism, it may also be worthwhile to look at how crimes against them are trivialized by traditionally & culturally reinforced notions of honour, rather than justice.
22/3/2006
UK: Law lords back school over Islamic dress
The law lords today overturned a court ruling that teenager Shabina Begum's human rights were violated when she was banned from wearing full Islamic dress at school.
21/3/2006
Pakistan: Religious minorities - ensure protection of places of worship and properties
20/3/2006
Turkey: Turkish toil brings new form of faith
The new entrepreneurialism sweeping across Anatolia province is providing an unlikely catalyst for a remarkable religious transformation.