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9/10/2005
USA: Turning Point for Muslim women and their children
Turning Point is a community based, non-profit organization in New York which addresses the needs of Muslim women and children through crisis intervention, individual and group counseling, advocacy, outreach, education and training.
8/10/2005
Iraq: Focus on increasing cases of abused women
According to the Ministry of Public Works and Social Affairs, there has been a significant increase in cases of abuse against women, especially in the capital, Baghdad.
7/10/2005
Saudi Arabia: Breaking the silence
Rania al-Baz's popularity as a TV news presenter was always an implicit threat to Saudi Arabia's repressive, male-dominated culture but it wasn't until her husband beat her, and she published the photos of her injuries, that she shook Saudi society.
6/10/2005
Algeria: Organised intergenerational transmission of trauma in Algeria
The vote of the Charter of Reconciliation.
5/10/2005
Iran: Blocking of web-based information on women and gender
Object to the policy of filtering, censorship and blocking of information on the Internet in Iran, particularly information related to women's issues and gender.
4/10/2005
International: The Rights at Home project
Working with local activist organizations and agents of change, the project has developed an approach to thinking about & struggling for rights through critical debate, creative and constructive solutions & an exchange of ideas & strategies.
3/10/2005
International: Justice, Gender and Islam by Amina Wadud
For more than three decades now, I have given these three words a great deal of earnest consideration: Islam, Gender and Justice.
2/10/2005
Saudi Arabia: Saudi ban on women driving is a taboo waiting to be broken
Mohamed al-Zulfa was a little-known member of the majlis al-shura (consultative council). A few months ago he became a celebrity when he turned a discussion about a new traffic law into a national debate about the right of women to drive cars.
29/9/2005
UK: Quest to become 'UK's first female imam'
Salma Qureshi, a computer programmer and British Muslim, tells the BBC of her ambition to become one of the UK's first female imams.
28/9/2005
Uzbekistan: Uzbek Nobel nominees get cold shoulder
Though traditionally tolerant of women’s groups, the Karimov regime has been cracking down since the violence in Andijan in May. Women’s NGOs have been closed and pressure increased on activists.