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20/1/2005
Sri Lanka: The spectre of a ‘second Tsunami’ in Sri Lanka
What can we do to prevent a human-made disaster? by N. Shanmugaratnam.
20/1/2005
International: Feminist Dialogues - building solidarity
WLUML will participate in the upcoming Feminist Dialogues (FD), a 2 day transnational meeting of feminist networks and organizations held before the World Social Forum.
19/1/2005
Iran: Iran admits Ebadi summons 'error'
Iran's hard-line judiciary has made a rare admission of error over a case involving Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi.
18/1/2005
Bahrain: GCC governments must wait no longer to tackle violence against women
The conference, held in Manama, Bahrain, was the first to bring together human rights activists from all GCC countries and Yemen to discuss violence and discrimination against women.
17/1/2005
Iraq: First post-war survey of Iraqi women
The survey shows women want legal rights; dispels notions that women believe tradition and culture should limit their participation in government.
14/1/2005
International: Book review - Apostasy in Islam
This book is an impassioned case against the dominant Muslim view on the punishment for apostasy.
13/1/2005
Iraq: Quiet, or I'll call democracy
Iraqi women were long the most liberated in the Middle East. Occupation has confined them to their homes.
13/1/2005
Iran: Iran orders Nobel winner to court
Iranian Nobel Peace prize laureate Shirin Ebadi has been summoned before a Revolutionary Court in Tehran.
12/1/2005
Indonesia: The Islamic Defenders Front and the Indonesia Mujahidin Council in Acheh
Statement by the government in exile of Acheh.
11/1/2005
Canada: Response to Marion Boyd’s report on the Arbitration Act
The Canadian Council of Muslim Women (CCMW) expresses disappointment in Marion Boyd’s report on Ontario’s 1991 Arbitration Act - which the former NDP Government, with Ms. Boyd as a Cabinet minister made law.