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The Women’s Aid Organisation (WAO), All Women’s Action Society (AWAM), Sisters in Islam (SIS) and Pusat Kesedaran Komuniti (EMPOWER) have joined hands in calling for the abolition of Section 498 of the Penal Code which they claimed was discriminatory against women.
WAO president Meera Samanther said women should be accorded rights as independent human beings an [...]
Plans to open branches of a Malaysian “Polygamy Club” in Indonesia have upset women’s groups and religious leaders in the world’s most populous Muslim nation, who say the search for multiple wives should be handled privately — not by a matchmaking service.
Under Islamic law, Muslim men are permitted four wives. The club claims a noble [...]
‘All kinds of trade-offs go on behind the scenes, which is the way they’ve done politics for the last three decades’
An in-depth investigation into the murky process that led to the enactment of Afghanistan’s controversial “rape” law reveals a porous, dysfunctional and corruptible parliamentary system.
But the system is at least functioning, it shows, a fact [...]
In conjunction with the presentation of the UN Fact Finding Mission’s report to the Human Rights Council on 29 September, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) release “Through Women’s Eyes: A PCHR Report on the Gender-Specific Impact and Consequences of Operation Cast Lead”. Download http://www.pchrgaza.org/files/Reports/English/pdf_spec/through-women’s%20_eyes.pdf
The Israeli offensive claimed the lives of 118 women, and [...]
Mali’s President Amadou Toumani Toure has sent a new family code that would boost women’s rights back to parliament for revision, giving in to pressure from the country’s top Islamic body and traditional leaders.
The new code, aimed at improving women’s rights by removing a previous clause demanding that they must obey their husbands, had won [...]
The Uganadan Constitutional Court will make a landmark ruling that will determine whether the practice of paying bride price for women during traditional marriages should continue.
The ruling could bring to an end a practice that has been carried on in every part of Uganda for generations as a token of appreciation to a woman’s parents [...]
More than 1.5 million women living with HIV in Asia were infected by their partners and 50 million more are at risk of infection, according to a report released on Tuesday.
The “HIV Transmission in Intimate Partner Relationships in Asia” report by UNAIDS said the women at risk are either married or in long-term relationships with [...]
Lawmakers are debating a bill that would make marital rape a crime in the Bahamas, overturning the current system in which consent to sexual intercourse is presumed in a legal marriage.
Legislator Loretta Butler-Turner, who drafted the bill, said the attitude that wives are subordinate to husbands has put some women at risk of violence in [...]
Rehashed legislation allows husbands to deny wives food if they fail to obey sexual demands
Afghanistan has quietly passed a law permitting Shia men to deny their wives food and sustenance if they refuse to obey their husbands’ sexual demands, despite international outrage over an earlier version of the legislation which President Hamid Karzai had promised [...]
While rights groups are celebrating a newly-adopted family code in Mali that changes marriage laws and expands girls’ rights, Muslim leaders and youths have vowed, even threatening violence, to block the code from becoming law.
The code – under discussion for 10 years before its adoption on 3 August – includes more than 1,100 new articles, [...]
The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB), comprising mostly clerics, has opposed the Law Commission’s report on bigamy. The board’s spokesman said that it would take up the matter with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh next month.
The Law Commission had in its 277th report to the central government said, “We fully agree with the fact [...]
According to the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) State of the World’s Children 2009 report, more than 64 percent of girls marry before they are 18. But with early marriage comes early pregnancy. One-third of teenage girls aged 15 to 19 are mothers or pregnant in Bangladesh today, with adolescent mothers more likely to [...]
A Liberian man whose 8-year-old daughter allegedly was raped by four boys, and then reportedly shunned by her family, must wait at least three months before possibly regaining custody of the girl.
The father, who is not being named to protect the girl’s identity, met with Child Protective Services on Monday.
The girl was taken into state [...]
Amnesty International has learned that at least 180 people face being flogged in the Maldives as a punishment for extramarital sex.
The vast majority of those who are flogged in the Maldives are women, even though both men and women can be sentenced to flogging. The most up to date official statistics on flogging from [...]
The debate over proposed changes to Israeli divorce laws has made its way to the Knesset, where interested parties are meeting to hash out a compromise in a dialogue that could stretch into the next legislative session.
Supported by a host of women’s rights groups, one plan seeks to eliminate the so-called “race to file,” [...]
The report “Out of Court Resolutions of Violence Against Women” has been written as a part of the project “Ending violence against Women”. The aim of the report is to convey an idea of the perceptions of domestic violence and resolution of domestic violence at the community level. In interviewing over 300 people in five [...]
Government wants to help women bereaved by 10-year civil war but human rights groups say plan is humiliating
Women’s groups have condemned a Nepalese government plan to pay men for marrying widows, describing it as contrary to human rights law and humiliating for single women.
Under the proposal, contained in the government’s annual budget last week, a [...]
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad issued a decree last week that increased the penalty for honor killing to a minimum prison sentence of two years. The law previously limited the maximum sentence to one year. According to the BBC, activists believe about 200 women are the victims of honor killings every year, murdered by male family [...]
Afghanistan’s Justice Ministry released a revision of the controversial Shia law that legalized rape within marriage, among other provisions. The Associated Press reports that the new version omits original provisions that allowed men to demand sex from their wives and that required women to ask their husbands’ permission to leave their home.
The law sparked international [...]
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Half measures against honour killings in Syria not enough – HRW
31 July 2009 in Family Marriage Partnership, Government, Middle East, Opinion Comment, Violence Against Women
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has welcomed Syria’s move to enforce a minimum jail sentence of two years for honour killers but said it was not enough as all murders should be dealt with equally.
“Two years is better than nothing, but it is hardly enough for murder,” Nadya Khalife, Middle East and North Africa women’s rights [...]