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19/9/2004
Sudan: Asking the right questions about Darfur
Interview with Salih Booker, the Executive Director of Africa Action.
19/9/2004
International: New call to ban female mutilation
An international conference on female genital mutilation has ended in Kenya with a fresh call to ban the practice.
16/9/2004
India: Fasting of Muslim women for their rights
The Tamil Nadu Muslim Women’s Jamaat has been initiated by the muslim women who are victimized by the male chauvinistic one sided Jamaats.
16/9/2004
Canada: Sharia debate rages on in Canada
As the debate in Canada on whether some of the Sharia provisions may be included in the legal code in the Ontario province, one Muslim community figure has declared that anyone who raises such questions is not a “real Muslim.”
15/9/2004
Iraq: Voices from Iraq: Women speak out
Iraqi women face tough choices in their country following the US-led invasion and occupation.
14/9/2004
Bangladesh: Unite against government to fight fanatics
Women's organisations urge progressive, pro-liberation forces.
13/9/2004
Turkey: EU irked by Turkish adultery law
The adultery law is part of a package of sweeping changes to the penal code, which include the abolition of torture and the expansion of individual liberties.
13/9/2004
Malaysia: Religion and Women: the Feminist Experience in Islamic Malaysia
Patriarchal societies most often consider feminism to be a rebellious break away from culture and religious traditions.
12/9/2004
France: French campaigner for women's rights dies
Samira Bellil, whose book recounting gang rape she suffered as a teenager in a tough Paris suburb put her in the avant-garde of a small movement fighting for French Muslim women's rights, has died of stomach cancer. She was 31.
31/8/2004
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