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11/8/2004
India: Hullaballooo over triple Talaq in India
Three articles from the July 2004 issue of Communalism Combat.
10/8/2004
Pakistan: Change slow to come for Pakistani women
City dwellers now enjoy new freedoms, but in rural areas old rules still apply.
9/8/2004
Afghanistan: The woman who wants to be Afghan president
Afghanistan's only female candidate for president has no money for campaigning and almost no coverage in the media. Islamic fundamentalists hate her, and instead of a political party to support her she has a group of students from Kabul University.
9/8/2004
France: The repudiated women of the Republic
"20 years barakat!"* 40 years is enough.
8/8/2004
Canada: When the Koran Speaks, Will Canadian Law Bend?
A group called the Canadian Society of Muslims is testing boundaries by establishing the Islamic Institute of Civil Justice to apply the legal code called Shariah, based on the Koran, to settle disputes over property, inheritance, marriage and divorce.
8/8/2004
India: Women’s rights and wrongs
The All India Muslim Personal Law Board proclaims that triple talaq is a social evil, but it is equally assertive that this social evil should not be removed by legislative reform.
5/8/2004
Iraq: Hate aims of Iraq church attacks
Iraq's Christians are picking up the pieces after a series of explosions targeted five churches.
5/8/2004
Uzbekistan: No love lost in Karakalpak bride thefts
Gulzabira Toreshova doesn't believe in happy marriages. She saw her husband for the first time at a friend's birthday party — by the end of the evening she had been abducted and forced to become his wife.
4/8/2004
Malaysia: Sisterhood in Islam
Sisters in Islam (SIS) began in a living room with a group of women who got together to study the Quran because they were concerned about the oppression women faced in the name of Islam.
4/8/2004
Vatican: Vatican denounces feminism for threatening families
The Vatican has denounced feminism for trying to blur differences between men and women and threatening the institution of families based on a mother and a father.