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8/5/2002
Afghanistan: Women still under threat
Many continue to wear the Burqa for personal safety.
7/5/2002
Canada: Women Against the Occupation website launch
Easy to access information for current WAO supporters as well as women and men who want to learn about the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and its oppression of the Palestinian people.
6/5/2002
India: Gujarat - impact of violence against women
The communal violence in Gujarat continues.
6/5/2002
USA: US renounces International Criminal Court Treaty
The United States has withdrawn from a treaty to establish an International Criminal Court (ICC), provoking outrage from human rights organisations.
6/5/2002
Pakistan: Stoning sentence against Zafran Bibi is suspended
A court in Pakistan has suspended the sentence of stoning to death passed against a woman convicted of adultery.
6/5/2002
Saudi Arabia: Banning of 'indecent' cloaks
Saudi Arabian authorities have confiscated thousands of full-length black cloaks for women for violating Sharia, a Saudi newspaper has reported.
2/5/2002
Nigeria: Sharia law reaches Nigeria's south
Muslim leaders in Nigeria say they have introduced Sharia law in a southern state for the first time.
2/5/2002
Pakistan: Condemnation of police brutality at demonstration
The Women’s Action Forum (WAF) and the Joint Action Committee Lahore (JAC) condemn in the strongest terms possible the unprovoked police brutality against members of the Alliance for the Repeal of Discriminatory Laws in Islamabad on May 2nd 2002.
2/5/2002
Summary of statement by the Women's Caucus at the International Conference for Financing for Development (FfD)
An Equitable World is possible and necessary women at the FfD declare.
2/5/2002
Pakistan: Law and injustice - living with Zia's legacy
Zafran Bibi's commission of Zina has not been established in court. She has been sentenced, on circumstantial evidence, for giving birth while her husband was in prison. The Federal Shariat Court has ruled that such evidence is inadequate.