Women's Empowerment and Leadership Development for Democratisation

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Indonesia: First Sharia Court for Aceh

Indonesia's troubled Aceh province is to establish the country's first criminal court based on Sharia law. ...

Worldwide: "I'm not going to respond to terrorism by becoming a terrorist"

If you'd lost a loved one, would you want revenge? As the world edges closer to war, Rachel Shabi of the UK newspaper 'The Guardian' talks to relatives who believe retaliation is wrong. ...

United Arab Emirates: Call to amend draft Personal Status law

A UAE national advocate, who is a member of the UAE Women's Federation, claims that articles in the Personal Status Draft Law will have an negative effect on women's rights. ...

Jordan: Amendments to citizenship law still await final cabinet approval

Recent announcement to introduce a law allowing Jordanian women married to foreign men to pass their citizenship on to their children. ...

UK: Launch of the SAFRA Project

The Safra Project is a voluntary resource project based in the UK and aims to conduct research and provide information on issues relating to lesbian, bisexual and transgender women who identify themselves as Muslim, culturally and/or religiously. ...

Egypt: Egyptian anti-war activists arrested and tortured

Emergency legislation used to suppress free expression. ...

Yemen: Islah declares women unfit for election

Islah’s political sector chairman Mohammed Qahtan announced that his party will not nominate women for the coming parliamentary elections in April 2003. ...

Worldwide: Seven women to serve on the International Criminal Court

After 33 rounds of balloting, 18 judges have finally been elected to the International Criminal Court. ...

France: Muslim women march against violence

In spite of sub-zero temperatures, sleet and snow, thousands of Muslim women turned up on Saturday for the first day of a five-week march that will take them to 23 cities of France, and allow them to protest the growing violence they are subject to. ...

Afghanistan: Divisions in central government hampers effort on new constitution

There are deep divisions within the Afghan central government between those who favour a conservative interpretation of Islamic law and those who want to revive more progressive ideas about the judiciary. ...

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