News

10/9/2005

Iraqi secularists fear that religious hard-liners will gain strength, and rights may erode, from the draft constitution's endorsement of Islam.

9/9/2005

North Africa: Reasserting a living secularism

A drained nationalism.

9/9/2005

Afghanistan: Afghan woman candidate attacked

Many female candidates have reportedly received threats. So far five candidates have been killed and one is missing, the election commission says.

8/9/2005

USA: Faith-based groups flock to disaster

God's punishment theory spreads.

7/9/2005

International: Annual demonstrations against Shari'a in Canada

It has been a year since the last day of national and international protest against faith based courts in Ontario and demands for the removal of family law from the 1991 Arbitration Act.

7/9/2005

Iraq: Theocracy lite by Katha Pollitt

So now we know what "noble cause" Cindy Sheehan's son died for in Iraq: Sharia.

6/9/2005

International: For the health of women, for the health of the world: no more violence

The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence campaign, now in its fifteenth year, is an international campaign originating from the first Women's Global Leadership Institute sponsored by the Center for Women's Global Leadership in 1991.

5/9/2005

International: 2005 World Summit - what's at stake for women

The UN has been a galvanizing force for women in the past two decades, facilitating their efforts to define a comprehensive global agenda for peace and human rights, gender equality and women's empowerment, poverty eradication and sustainable development.

5/9/2005

UPDATE: Bahrain: Continue to take action in support of Ghada Jamsheer and defenders of human and women’s rights

4/9/2005

Lebanon: Lebanon's gays struggle with law

Homosexuality in Lebanon is no longer on the fringes of society or confined to an underworld of nightclubs and exclusive gatherings. It is now the subject of daily discussions in the country.