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Vol. XX
# 1 - March 2008
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Inside
Violence against women
Women, rights and laws
Dress code
International Women's Day
Challenging norms, changing laws
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The Global Campaign to Stop Killing
& Stoning Women |
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Woman
escapes stoning to death
 Mokarrameh Ebrahimi was released from prison in Qazvin province on
the orders of Iranian judiciary's amnesty commission, said her
lawyer Shadi Sadr.
Ms
Ebrahimi's partner, Jafar Kiani, was stoned to death in July 2007,
causing an international outcry. The reasons for
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What
is stoning?
Stoning, or lapidation, refers to a method of execution in which
an organized group throws stones or rocks at the person they wish
to execute. Stoning has been used throughout history and in many
religious and cultural traditions as a kind of community justice
or capital punishment. Although there is no mention of stoning in
the Quran, the practice has since grown to be associated with
Islam and Muslim culture.
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Two
sisters await execution of the stoning sentence
Zohreh and
Azar are two sisters from Khademabad, near Karaj, Iran. Both were
arrested on February 5, 2007 on alleged charges of adultery.
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14-year-old stoned to death by father
 A
14 years old girl, identified as Saeedeh, has been stoned to death by
her father, reported the daily newspaper Qods.
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Violence against Women |
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Benazir Bhutto pays with life
for democracy
 Bhutto,
twice prime minister and leader of the Pakistan People's Party
(PPP), was killed on December 27, 2007 in what was apparently
a suicide attack following gunshots that injured her as she
was leaving an election rally in the garrison town of
Rawalpindi.
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Muslim teen choked by father
dies
 WASHINGTON:
Sixteen-year old Aqsa Parvez, who was choked by her father for
her reluctance to continue wearing the hijab, has died in a
Toronto hospital despite doctors' effort to save her life.
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Al-Azhar says women
pregnant by rape must abort baby
CAIRO: Al-Azhar, Sunni
Islam's highest seat of learning declared that any woman
pregnant by rape must abort the baby immediately in order
to maintain "social stability".
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IRAQ: 'Bad' women raped and
killed
 BAGHDAD: Women are being
killed by militia groups in southern Iraq for not conforming
to strict Islamic ways, the police say. And, increased threats
from militia groups are driving many women away from their
homes.
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Iran: Zanan, a voice of women,
silenced
 On
January 29, 2008 word emerged that Iran's leading women's
magazine has been ordered to close.
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Iranian man to pay wife a
124,000-rose dowry
An Iranian court has ordered
a man to give his wife the 124,000 roses that he promised in
her dowry, after she filed a complaint to claim it, reports
say.
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Bahrain:Anti-trafficking law
set to end minors' abuse
 A blot in Bahrain's rights
record is hoped to be erased with the enactment of a sweeping
anti-human trafficking law.
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Bias against women on
commercial registrations despite law in Bahrain
The Shura Council has
criticised the implementation of the Commercial Law saying it
discriminates against women and their rights. After a complete
review of the law, the Shura women and children committee
discovered that more privileges were given to men compared
with women.
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Women, Rights and Laws |
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Bangladesh retreats on women's
rights after clerics protest
 DHAKA:
Bangladesh's military-backed government has backed down from a
policy to ensure equal property rights to women amid angry
protests by Muslim clerics that the move would override
Islamic law.
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Forced marriage higher than
official figures in Britain : study
LONDON: The number of forced
marriages involving young women from Britain being taken
abroad to wed is likely far higher than first thought, said an
official report.
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Dress Code |
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Turkey ends student headscarf
ban
 Turkish
President Abdullah Gul has signed into law constitutional
amendments which allow women to wear Islamic headscarves at
universities.
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International
Women's Day |
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International
Women's Day
Can women find unique ways out of war?
 Women leaders from 45 nations
met in India to discuss their role in conflict resolution
Sakena Yacoobi well knows the
hardships of Afghan women, caught between a war and the
hopelessness of poverty and illiteracy.
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Women in Turkmenistan to get $10 Women's
Day gift
 ASHGABAT: Women in the ex-Soviet state of Turkmenistan will be receiving
$10 each from the state as a Women's Day present.
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Afghan male tailors barred from measuring
females
KABUL: Male tailors in an Afghan
province have been barred from measuring female clients for fittings
following a new local ruling that resembles the restrictions the
conservative Taliban imposed on the country when in power.
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Challenging Norms, Changing Laws |
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Saudi Arabian women need
support to help advance society
— UN expert
 An
independent United Nations expert hailed progress in Saudi
Arabia on advancing the status of women but urged more
action to prevent gender-based violence and raise their
profile in public life.
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Woman faces execution for
'witchcraft'
A
leading human rights group appealed to Saudi Arabia's King
Abdullah to stop the execution of a woman accused of witchcraft
and performing supernatural acts.
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Rape victim pardoned by king of
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah
has pardoned a female rape victim who had been sentenced to
200 lashes for being alone with a man at the time of the
attack who was not related to her, reported a Saudi newspaper.
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First female-only hotel opens in
Riyadh
 RIYADH:
For a country that strives to segregate unrelated men and women,
it took Saudi Arabia a long time to hit on the idea of female-only
hotels. The kingdom's first hotel for women opened on March 19,
2008, offering plush lodgings and health and beauty facilities —
so ladies can pamper themselves away from the male-dominated
society.
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Muslims get their own clinic in
Moscow
Muslims concerned about receiving medical treatment with practices
in line with sharia can now go to the first medical center in the
country specialising in Muslim patients.
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'A woman's testimony is equal to
that of a man' — Egyptian parliamentarian
Zeinab Radwan, Deputy Speaker of the People's Assembly in the
Egyptian Parliament and member of the National Democratic Party,
created a storm announcing "the testimony of a woman is legally
equal in weight with a man's testimony."
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Woman to conduct marriages in Egypt
Amal Soliman, 32, has broken centuries of tradition by being
chosen as a judicial assistant who officiates at weddings, known
as a maazun.
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UAE gets first woman judge
ABU DHABI: The oil-rich United Arab
Emirates got its first woman judge, a job hitherto reserved for men in
this country.
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'We are neither men nor women, but
Muslims like anyone else'
They are neither men nor women. In
their devotion to God, however, they are second to none.
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Farzana slams Farhat over
pro-polygamy statements
WASHINGTON: Farzana Hassan, president of the Muslim Canadian
Congress, has criticised Toronto-based Farhat Hashmi for teaching
her students that total subservience of women to men is in the
interest of maintaining domestic harmony, suggesting that women
are thus its ultimate beneficiaries.
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Pakistan: National Assembly elects first
female speaker
 ISLAMABAD:
The National Assembly (NA) elected its first female speaker on March 19,
as Pakistan People's Party MNA Fehmida Mirza made history after winning
more than two-thirds of the total votes.
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Pakistani woman receives courage award
 WASHINGTON:
Dr Begum Jan, who received the international women of courage award from
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on March 10, believes that the
military might alone cannot subdue the tribes of Waziristan in Pakistan.
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