News

8/6/2003

Pakistan: Clerics beat female visitors at the Faisal mosque

Mohammad Shehzad reports, "On a sunny Sunday afternoon I saw maulvis beating women outside the Faisal Mosque. Where is our country heading?"

8/6/2003

Malaysia: Hand-holding ban is dropped after 'overzealous' fines

Religious police who fined courting couples for holding hands in Malaysia were criticised by the government for being ‘overzealous’ yesterday.

4/6/2003

Nigeria: Stoning appeal adjourned

Amina Lawal has had her appeal adjourned until 27 August 2003 as she seeks to overturn a conviction for adultery.

2/6/2003

Saudi Arabia: Shoura to debate employment law for women

The Shoura Council is expected to debate the employment law for women.

2/6/2003

Senegal: Victory for the progressives but not so for Senegalese women

Civil society organizations succeed in keeping Family Law intact in Senegal.

1/6/2003

Pakistan: Civil society groups reject proposed Shariah, Hasba acts

The Joint Action Committee (JAC), a forum of civil society groups, has rejected the proposed NWFP Shariah Act, 2003, and the Hasba Act.

1/6/2003

Iraq: Women losing freedoms in chaos of postwar Iraq - Shiite clerics move into power vacuum

In the chaos that followed the fall of Saddam Hussein last month, the Hawza, a powerful group of senior Shiite Muslim clerics, took over al-Rahmah, an orphanage in Iraq.

1/6/2003

Iraq: Women living in fear

Most of the theatrical gowns designed by Feryal Kilidar over 32 years have gone up in smoke – burned by looters.

29/5/2003

Saudi Arabia: Educator seeks to correct Islam-based gender disparity

An educator in Saudi Arabia is coming up with a book that seeks to correct false notions of women's roles in their society and how these notions are being upheld by a misinterpretation of the Qur'an, the holy book of Islam.

28/5/2003

UN: Security Council Resolution 1483 on Iraq

Includes a reference to Security Council Resolution 1325 in the preamble.