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5/12/2005
Algeria: Law drafted to restrict evangelists
Algeria's cabinet have approved a draft law aimed at combating the growing influence of evangelical Christian groups in the overwhelmingly Muslim country.
4/12/2005
Senegal: Villages vow to stop cutting girls
Members of 70 villages from the country’s northeastern Matam region have publicly renounced female genital mutilation (FGM) as well as forced and early marriages.
3/12/2005
Saudi Arabia: Saudi women score twice in first run at polls
Two Saudi businesswomen swept to a suprise victory in chamber of commerce elections on Wednesday in the first polls in which women stood as candidates in the conservative Muslim kingdom.
2/12/2005
International: Women bombers break new ground
The majority of suicide bombers have been young men. However, some of the most lethal exponents of suicide bombing have been neither male nor Muslim. Women involved in a series of attacks are beginning to undermine this stereotype.
2/12/2005
Europe: Belgian woman suicide bomber
Police in Belgium and France launched a series of raids yesterday against a suspected terrorist network after a Belgian-born convert to Islam blew herself up in Baghdad, becoming Europe's first woman suicide bomber.
1/12/2005
Sudan: The effects of conflict on women and girls in Darfur
UNICEF and UNFPA recently carried out a situation analysis in Darfur, Sudan on the effects of the ongoing conflict on the health and well-being of the 1.64 million girls and women who are affected by the war.
1/12/2005
UPDATE: Bangladesh: Continued attacks on the Ahmadiyya community
30/11/2005
Serbia and Montenegro: Stop attacks on human rights activists
Human rights activists and independent journalists in Serbia are increasingly threatened and even physically attacked in an attempt to silence debate about past atrocities, Amnesty International say in a new report.
29/11/2005
Pakistan: Attacks leave churches gutted and religious minorities living in fear
Mob's rampage in Pakistan after rumours of Qur'an desecration worries communities that usually live in peace.
28/11/2005
UK: Gender, marriage migration and justice in multicultural Britain
WLUML is participating in this conference on 12 January 2006, which will feature national and international experts on key areas of women’s rights, immigration law and domestic violence.