Miscellaneous

Publications by Muslim Women’s Research and Action Forum

The titles listed below can be ordered directly from the Muslim Women’s Research and Action Forum. Write to them at mwraf@sltnet.lk for more details.

Can We Women Head a Muslim State?
Fatima Mernissi
Translated into Tamil by M. Nuhman
In her own words, in this slim volume Mernissi attempts to provide the young and uninformed reader with the basic facts about the ‘yes and No' debate on a woman's right to lead a Muslim state.

France: Yasmina 'elle' militant des femmes Maghrebines

Le magazine de la femme du Maghreb et du monde arabe.

Mauritanie: Site web sur la femme Mauritanienne

A caractère bibliographique, ce premier site web sur la femme mauritanienne, constitue un ambryon de la présence de celle-ci sur la toile mondiale.

Afghanistan: Letter to the editor of the Christian Science Monitor

Response from Nasrine Abou-Bakre Gross, Afghan Women's Rights Activist and Negar Member, to the article of July 31, 2002 entitled 'US-Grown Feminist's Pace of Reform Riles Afghan Women', of which she was the subject.

Worldwide: Six hundred file September 11th law suit

More than 600 September 11 survivors and victims' families have filed a $100 trillion suit accusing the Saudi royal family, seven international banks, charities and others of financing Osama bin Laden's terrorist network.

UN: Support Navi Pillay, the only woman candidate, as next High Commissioner for Human Rights

The search for a successor to Mary Robinson has begun.

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.

Mondial: Nouvel outil d'evaluation du CEDAW

L'Initiative Juridique pour l'Europe du Centre et de l'Est de l'Association du Barreau Americain.

Worldwide: Cultural relativism, this era's fascism by Maryam Namazie

Excerpts from a speech given on cultural relativism given at a forum organized by the International Campaign in Defense of Women's Rights in Iran (ICDWRI).

Dossier 20

Ce Dossier commence par un exposé de Deniz Kandiyoti sur la position et le rôle des femmes dans les luttes anti-coloniales et dans le projet nationaliste. Les mouvements nationalistes, presque partout, ont bénéficié de la mobilisation des femmes chaque fois que c’était nécessaire, même au front. Cependant, l’indépendance nationale obtenue, les femmes ont été, encore une fois, reléguées au second plan et renvoyées à la sphère privée.