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September 16, 2011
A recent article in the Australian Medical Journal by Ben Mathews, LLB, PhD, calls for increased protection of […]
September 16, 2011
Campaigners in Lancashire, the UK, have slammed news that the Government is not planning to criminalise forced marriage. […]
September 16, 2011
An Islamic Sharia law court has been established in Antwerp, the second-largest city in Belgium. The self-appointed Muslim judges […]
September 16, 2011
The growing influence of Islamists in Libya raises hard questions about the ultimate character of the government and […]
September 16, 2011
The Kenyan First Lady, Lucy Kibaki, has called on law enforcers to ensure that the law on Female […]
September 14, 2011
Islamists are emerging in force in Libya, worrying those concerned about women’s rights. Via:[http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-east/islamists-emerge-in-force-in-new-libya/2011/09/12/gIQAdU10QK_story.html?wprss=rss_world]
September 9, 2011
A Jordanian man was charged on Sunday with killing his 24-year-old widowed daughter in hospital after she gave […]
September 9, 2011
Kenya has become the latest African country to ban female genital mutilation, with the passing of a law […]
September 9, 2011
Guidelines on how to perform female genital mutilation/cutting issued by the Indonesian Ministry of Health could cause an […]
September 9, 2011
The parents of Shafilea Ahmed, the victim of a suspected “honour killing” almost eight years ago in Warrington, […]
September 9, 2011
The spread of Islamic Sharia law in Germany is far more advanced than previously thought, and German authorities […]
September 6, 2011
In response to an Op-Ed posted in The New York Times on Friday, September 2nd, by Yale professor […]
August 31, 2011
In Pakistan, a father murdered his six daughters in an admitted honor killing, saying he would do it […]
August 31, 2011
Turkish suicides raise question of honor killings. Among concerns are that the increase in young women committing suicide […]
August 31, 2011
The Bristol area (UK) has seen a “significant rise” in forced marriages over the past 5 years, with […]