Archive for the 'Human Rights' Category
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Greetings from Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML)! We are delighted to announce that Ms. Shadi Sadr is the recipient of the 2009 Tulip Award, the Dutch Human Rights Defenders Award.
‘Shadi Sadr is being awarded the Human Rights Defenders Tulip for her exceptional courage, perseverance and work in an environment of concern, [...]
Some governments’ broad counter-terrorism laws are punishing women and gays and suppressing groups pushing gender equality, a U.N. envoy of human rights and counter-terrorism said on Monday.
Many of these people are caught between being victims of extremist groups and victims of counter-terrorism measures, said Martin Scheinin, a U.N. special rapporteur on promotion and protection of [...]
Judges rejected an appeal by the democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi against her extended house arrest, lawyers and officials said.
A divisional court in Rangoon upheld the Nobel laureate’s conviction in August over an incident in which an American man swam uninvited to her home, earning her an extra 18 months in detention.
”The appeal was [...]
Four courageous and tireless advocates of human rights – from Burma, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia and Russia – have been awarded the prestigious Alison Des Forges Defender Award for Extraordinary Activism, Human Rights Watch said today. The four work to uphold freedom of expression, to protect women in conflict, and to ease the plight [...]
Palestinian women in one of Lebanon’s largest refugee camps say that with no rights in the country or even within their own community, they feel they are treated “worse than dogs.” (MAP)
Offering a unique insight into life in one of 12 refugee camps in the country, Medical Aid for Palestinians, a British charity working for [...]
The Committee of Human Rights Reporters reports that the bail order for Shiva Nazar Ahari, a human rights, student and women’s rights activist, was reduced from 500 Million Tomans to 200 Million Tomans (roughly $200,000), after follow-up by her family. The reduction of the bail order takes place at the order of Judge Hadad and [...]
Nadje Al-Ali and Nicola Pratt
Berkeley-Los Angeles-London: University of California Press, 2009
Liberating women figured high in the official rhetoric justifying regime change in Iraq, but reality on the ground is a different story. In this carefully researched book, Nadje Al-Ali and Nicola Pratt, both professors at British universities, investigate why the situation of Iraqi [...]
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 [...]
On 25 August the court of Al-Shamli, north of Hail, found Mrs Khamisa Sawadi guilty of the charge of “khilwa” (mingling with two young men to whom she was not immediately related), and the higher court in Riyadh ratified their verdict. One of the two young men who was tried alongside Sawadi may face additional [...]
“I cried a lot, I couldn’t believe I was in prison. The day I was put in jail, I never thought I would be there for a long time,” an indigenous market vendor, Jacinta Francisco, said in Mexico after she was released from prison, where she spent three years for a crime she did not [...]
Human rights groups are calling on the Afghan government to adopt a new law which would more clearly differentiate rape, a criminal offence, from consensual adultery, considered a serious crime in the country.
“Rape and adultery are two different issues and should be separate in law. Rape is an act of violence and coercion and the [...]
IRAN: Backlash Mounts Against Women Ministers
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48297
RIGHTS-AFRICA: Ugandan Court Asked to Declare Bride Price Unconstitutional
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48364
CLIMATE CHANGE: Rising Seas Demand Better Family Planning
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48348
HEALTH-NIGERIA: Maternal Mortality, a Rural Community’s Example
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48305
EDUCATION-ZAMBIA: Bicycles Help Girls Go Further
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48349
MORE IPS IN-DEPTH COVERAGE OF WOMEN IN THE NEWS.
http://www.ipsnews.net/new_focus/women/index.asp
Afghanistan: Women’s Participation in the Election Process & in Political Leadership (WUNRN)
http://www.wluml.org/english/newsfulltxt.shtml?cmd%5B157%5D=x-157-565131
Afghanistan: UPDATE: Law Curbing Women’s Rights Takes Effect (Human Rights Watch)
http://www.wluml.org/english/newsfulltxt.shtml?cmd%5B157%5D=x-157-565139
Arab Countries: Call for applications for grants (AHRF)
http://www.wluml.org/english/newsfulltxt.shtml?cmd%5B157%5D=x-157-565203
Bahrain: Temporary marriages over email and text messaging (WUNRN via IPS News)
http://www.wluml.org/english/newsfulltxt.shtml?cmd%5B157%5D=x-157-565179
Bahrain: Seeking Gender Equality in Quran (IPS)
http://www.wluml.org/english/newsfulltxt.shtml?cmd%5B157%5D=x-157-565217
Bangladesh: Gang rape of a Dalit girl (OMCT)
http://www.wluml.org/english/newsfulltxt.shtml?cmd%5B157%5D=x-157-565175
Bangladesh: Ruling [...]
Linda Carty, 50, was sentenced to death in 2002 for her part in abducting and killing a 25-year-old woman, but claims she was framed.
A recorded plea from Carty was played aloud from the plinth. (play http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8246965.stm)
The Foreign Office said it had made a number of representations on her behalf to the US government.
Carty’s [...]
Jordan should reform penal code provisions that effectively reduce or eliminate punishment for violence against women instead of establishing special tribunals to hear “honor killings” cases, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to the Jordanian Ministry of Justice on August 10, 2009.
On August 12, the Jordan Times reported the 14th such killing this [...]
Hamas authorities in Gaza should suspend all orders that violate personal freedoms, including imposition of an Islamic dress code for female students, Human Rights Watch have said.
Human Rights Watch has received reports from Gaza residents that since the school year opened in late August, schools have been turning away female students for not wearing a [...]
For wearing trousers, I face 40 lashes. This is the brutal reality of Sudan: we live in fear of those who should protect us
Next week I will stand trial in a Sudanese court, charged along with 12 other women with committing an “indecent act” – wearing trousers in a public place. I will face up [...]
The International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA-Ghana) has called for a linkage in cultural practices to the country’s legal framework.
Mrs Chris Dadzie, a FIDA member, said on Tuesday at a Policy Dialogue forum on HIV/AIDS in Tema that cultural practices must be factored into the country’s laws for its effective implementation.
The dialogue, which was organized [...]
She sat throughout with a straight back, calmly and intently following the interminable legal arguments. She spoke politely and gravely to the prosecutors and judges. The British Ambassador described her as “composed, upright, crackling with energy”; even the prison police rose to their feet in respect as she entered the courtroom. The Chargé d’Affaires of [...]
Amnesty International adopted 46-year-old Jacinta Marcial as a prisoner of conscience for being unfairly sentenced to 21 years in prison and demanded that the Mexican authorities release her immediately and unconditionally.
The human rights body said she has been denied a fair trial and that she is in prison solely due to her marginal status in [...]
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