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12/10/2004
India: The commonality of 'fundamentalisms'
How respective ideologies contribute towards a culture that condones and engages in violence, by Beena Sarwar.
11/10/2004
Afghanistan: Intimidation and Attacks against Women in Public Life in Afghanistan
This report is based on interviews with women NGO activists, journalists, government officials, doctors, teachers, UN workers, and international donors from a wide range of ethnic groups, political affiliations, and regions.
10/10/2004
Afghanistan: Afghan women need security safeguards before election, warns UK charity
WOMANKIND Worldwide is calling for increased security and greater election monitoring to encourage the 4 million Afghan women who have registered, to cast their votes in the presidential elections.
7/10/2004
UK: Road to Muslim dignity
Only an internally generated intellectual revolution would provide Muslims a place of respect, by Dr Ghayasuddin Siddiqui.
6/10/2004
Indonesia: Gender expert Musdah speaks within reason
Siti Musdah Mulia has raised the ire of many for her boldness in criticizing some aspects of Islam considered sacred.
6/10/2004
Indonesia: Islam and Interfaith Relations in South Asia
Lily Zakiyah Munir is a leading Muslim women’s rights activist in Indonesia and works closely with the ‘ulama and students of Indonesian Islamic boarding schools or pesantrens.
5/10/2004
Training for women’s rights leaders
Rights & Democracy, in collaboration with the Shirkat Gah Women’s Resource Centre and WLUML is holding a training for women’s rights leaders in December 2004 in Pakistan.
4/10/2004
Iran: New Religious Thought and Feminism: An Interview with Alireza Alavitabar
Translated excerpts from an interview with Alireza Alavitabar, published in the Farvardin 1382 (March 2003) issue of Aftab magazine in Iran.
4/10/2004
Sierra Leone: Lesbian Rights Activist Brutally Murdered
The government of Sierra Leone should bring to justice those responsible for the brutal murder of FannyAnn Eddy, founder of the Sierra Leone Lesbian and Gay Association and a lesbian rights activist known across Africa, Human Rights Watch said today.
3/10/2004
Afghanistan: Addiction behind the burka: how Afghan women use drugs to cope with legacy of war
War trauma is by far the biggest factor among those using opiates.