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Nigeria: Abu law teacher faults Sharia sentence on Safiya
The case has been adjourned until 18 March 2002.
Worldwide: In search of justice, human rights and a just peace
Listen to WLUML activists discuss these issues from web-cast discussions held from Tuesday 16 - Thursday 18 October 2001.
Worldwide: Tell the Vatican to stand up for women
The Call to Accountability Campaign is an international campaign supported by over 300 international religious, women's rights and human rights groups whose goal is to raise public awareness about sexual violence against women in the Catholic church and hold accountable the individual and institutional leadership involved or complicit in this problem.
Worldwide: Tell the Vatican to stand up for women
WLUML statement on attacks in the USA
The network Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) wishes to extend its deepest condolences to the aggrieved, their families and the people of America following the crimes against humanity that were committed on 11 September 2001.
Algeria: Attacks on women in Hassi Messaoud
In July 2001, working women in the Saharan city Hassi Messaoud were attacked by a mob of three-hundred men following a sermon given in the local mosque by islamist imam Amar Taleb.
Egypt: Court rejects Saadawi forcible divorce case
Egyptian court rules that no individual can petition a court to forcibly divorce another person.
MIS A JOUR: Egypte: Appel renouvelé pour un soutien continu
Le proces a été repousse le 10 juillet 2001: la Tentative d'annuler le mariage de Docteur Nawal el--Saadawi est remise la deuxième fois.
MIS A JOUR: Egypte: Appel renouvelé pour un soutien continu
Egypt: Attempt to annul the marriage of Dr Nawal el-Saadawi
We are deeply concerned about politically-motivated court action brought against Dr. Nawal el-Saadawi and the possibility of threats to her personal security and that of her husband. Now 70, the prominent Egyptian feminist writer, doctor and active defender of the rights of women has become the latest intellectual to face the possibility of apostasy charges.
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