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27/9/2005
Malaysia: Malaysia law to protect first wives
Malaysia is moving to protect the financial rights of first wives whose husbands take another spouse, according to the New Straits Times.
26/9/2005
Pakistan: Women's human rights in Pakistan
What has changed and how? An interview with Asma Jehangir - Human Rights activist, Chairperson, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) - who speaks on strategies of change in the context women's rights in Pakistan.
25/9/2005
International: Update – Women and the ICC
Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice have recently initiated a collaborative research project with the University of Sydney, Australia on use of the Rome Statute to advance and promote women’s human rights domestically.
24/9/2005
Australia: Government warning on forced marriages
Sending girls overseas for marriage against their will was "tantamount to sexual trafficking" and offenders would be severely punished, the federal Government has warned.
23/9/2005
International: First international congress on Islamic feminism
The aim of this initiative is to make known the emerging movement of Muslim women in favour of gender equality and to seek greater coordination between Muslim women and the international feminist movement. It will take place in Barcelona - 27-29 October.
22/9/2005
UK: Conservative Catholic influence in Europe
Information on the Catholic Action Group (CAG), a small but very vocal conservative group in the UK, launched in 2005 and opposed to initiatives concerning sexual health and reproductive rights.
21/9/2005
International: Muslim World Journal of Human Rights
WLUML networkers have contributed to this special issue of the Muslim World Journal of Human Rights - "From the Field": Islam and human rights advocacy for social change in local contexts.
20/9/2005
Sudan: More women needed at peace talks and in government
It is women who have borne the responsibility of promoting reconciliation and healing at the local level. It is women who receive refugees and ex-combatants during war. Women should be at the negotiating table in Abuja.
19/9/2005
Canada: International perspectives on religious arbitration in family law
Final report of this conference held in May 2005, which contributed to the mobilization of feminist organizations & movements in Canada and Quebec, to resist the Ontario government's plans to allow the use of religious arbitration in family law.
18/9/2005
International: Fatwas, their acceptability and their relevance
In last couple of months number of controversial fatwas have been issued and media is strongly reacting to these fatwas.