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As Turmoil Ebbs, Iraqi Women Seek Freedom of Road Again

BAGHDAD -- The black-masked militias have vanished from most Baghdad streets, and the car bombings are down to one or two a day. So one recent afternoon, Hadeel Ahmed, a ponytailed college student in jeans, did something few Iraqi women have dared in recent years.

FundHer Brief 2008: Money Watch for Women’s Rights Movements and Organizations

This publication aims to provide an updated snapshot of key funding trends impacting women’s rights organizations.

Conditionalities Undermine the Right to Development

An analysis based on a women's and human rights perspective.

Doha 2008: Women’s Rights & Gender Equality in Financing for Development

Statement from women’s rights organisations and networks gathered in Doha before the official Conference on Financing for Development (FfD) to review the Monterrey Consensus.

Sixty years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

This week, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights turns sixty. There is much to celebrate, but progress on the realisation of rights has been extremely slow.

NGOs against book-banning say it with postcards

PUTRAJAYA: A group of 10 non-governmental organisations, including Sisters in Islam (SIS), Suaram and representatives from Bar Council, handed some 1,000 postcards protesting the banning of books to the Home Ministry here on Tuesday.

Algeria: Woman sentenced to 10 years for allegedly damaging a Quran

23/10/2008: According to Algerian Newspaper El Watan, last September a young women aged 26 was sentenced to 10 years in prison in Biskra, southern Algeria, where she is already detained for previous offence. She is accused of having damaged a Quran.

10 Taliban arrested in school girl acid attack

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Afghan police have arrested 10 Taliban militants involved in an acid attack this month against 15 girls and teachers walking to school in southern Afghanistan, a provincial governor said Tuesday.

Muslim woman defies male dominance

Amal Soliman, a 32-year-old Egyptian woman, has endured intimidation and ridicule in the year since she applied for a job as the Muslim world's first mazouna, or female marriage registrar, but she says her victory has been worth the fight.

Call for Pakistan divorce law change causes stir

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's top Islamic advisory body has urged the government to amend divorce laws to give more say to women, triggering a controversy with religious hardliners vowing to resist the move.

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