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Sierra Leone: Quatre journalistes Sierra-Léonaises séquestrées par des femmes favorables à l’excision
D’après l’ONU, 94% des femmes et des jeunes filles de Sierra Leone ont subi une mutilation génitale.
UPDATE: Pakistan: Supreme Court adjourns hearing of Mukhtar Mai's case indefinitely
Mukhtar Mai's counsel, Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan, had moved an application for adjournment, which was considered the best course of action in the current circumstances. With no right to a further appeal, Mai's rapists will stay in jail. However, the threat to the safety of Mukhtar Mai, and her family, from those implicated in the interference in her case remains.
Sierra Leone: FGM supporters kidnap four women journalists
The abduction and intimidation of four women journalists took place in the eastern city of Kenema on 6 February by members of a women’s secret society that practices female genital mutilation (FGM).
International: Website dedicated to abandonment of FGM/C
This new website will be a resource to share documents and information about donor-supported work with a particular focus on sharing lessons learned and programs that support communities worldwide to enable them to abandon FGM/C within a generation.
France: Chahrazad face à son agresseur qui l'avait brûlée vive
Parce qu’elle refusait de l’épouser, Mushtaq Amer Butt a aspergé d’essence son ex-fiancée, avant d’y mettre le feu.
France: Pakistani man on trial for setting woman alight
Amer Mushtaq Butt, 28, doused Chahrazade Belayni in petrol and set fire to her on the street as she was leaving her home in the under-privileged Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Marne in 2005.
United Kingdom: Police stop woman's forced marriage
A young woman has been saved from a forced marriage after police used new legal powers to prevent her father from taking her to Pakistan.
Somalia: Woman defies custom by refusing FGM for her daughters
A mother tells how the type of genital mutilation practised in Somalia is full infibulation when the girls are about five to seven years old.
Pakistan: Interference in the case of Mukhtar Mai
The Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) international solidarity network is deeply concerned by the fact that a sitting Federal Minister, Mr. Qayyum Jatoi, has pressured Mukhtar Mai, the well-known women’s human rights defender, to drop charges against the accused in her case.
Palestine: Women's rights seriously violated during Gaza conflict
The following statement by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women was issued on 6 February 2009 in Geneva:
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