News

21/3/2003
The Democratic League for Women's Rights (LDDF) urge you to support Maria Makrem who was recently attacked and threatened by the Moroccan security services.
19/3/2003
Within hours American and British military forces are expected to attack Iraq in a war that has no international legal sanction.
19/3/2003
Once again gender apartheid is being instituted in grave violations of the human rights of girls and women in Afghanistan. This time, the attacks are coming from warlords.
18/3/2003
Arab women are generally portrayed as victimised, subservient.
18/3/2003
An Egyptian court has jailed 21 men for three years each for practising homosexuality in a retrial after their original sentences were quashed on presidential orders.
12/3/2003
Act Together - Women Against Sanctions on Iraq is a group of UK-based Iraqi and non-Iraqi women.
10/3/2003
The Afghan Women's Network (AWN) has called for sweeping changes in the Afghan Constitution that would permit Afghan women free health care in all maternal health facilities and equal rights in all aspects of divorce and custody of children.
7/3/2003
A compilation of the Concluding Observations and General Comments or General Recommendations, relating to reproductive and sexual health, developed by the international human rights treaty bodies.