News

8/4/2004

Serbia and Montenegro: Report and request from Women in Black, Belgrade

On 6th April, Women in Black together with citizens of Serbia, protested under the slogan "Not in our name, not with our money."

8/4/2004

Women and Religions in a Globalized World: Conversations to Advance Gender Equity

An interview with AWID's Lydia Alpizar about the ways in which religious organisations and women's organisations can work together for women's human rights.

8/4/2004

Iraq: Women, peace and security news

Information on issues relating to women in Iraq from the website of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

7/4/2004

Indonesia: Abortion issue sparks variety of reactions

A proposal by 13 Muslim scholars that abortion be legalized for pregnancy caused by rape or incest has sparked a variety of reactions among religious leaders.

5/4/2004

Shari'a Has Never Been and Should Never Be the Basis for Family Law

A review of "Islamic Family Law in a Changing World: A Global Resource Book," Abdullahi A. An-Na'im, ed. by Cassandra Balchin of the WLUML International Coordination Office.

2/4/2004

Pakistan: Women's Commission Recommends Qisas Law Be Amended

The National Commission on the Status of Women (NCSW), after reviewing the Qisas and Diyat Ordinance (Act II of 1997) and the concept of justice in Islam, declared that honour killings and all other sorts of victimisation of women have no link with Islam.

2/4/2004

Pakistan: Women's bill splits Pakistani MPs

A long-awaited bill on women's rights has been presented before Pakistan's National Assembly.

1/4/2004

Palestine/India: On Feminism and National Identity

The Experience of Palestinian Women in Israel and Muslim Women in India by Hoda Rouhana.

31/3/2004

Pakistan: Criminals -- or victims of an unjust system?

If the President really wants to help women in prison, he would do well to repeal the Hudood Ordinances.

30/3/2004

UK: Lawyers 'ignore forced marriages'

Solicitors are afraid of being branded racist if they intervene to stop forced marriages, the Law Society has said.