-- "Honor killings, other attacks on women need to end, it says"
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/04/14/kurdistan.rights/
-- "According to official records, the report said, at least 102 women and girls were killed between the beginning of July 2007 and the end of June 2008 in the region."
-- Report: "Hope and Fear, Human Rights in Kurdistan Region of Iraq"
http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/MDE14/006/2009/en/c2e5ae23-b204-4b46-b7f5-06dc1501f62f/mde140062009en.pdf
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/documents/mde140062009en.pdf
-- See Section 8 on violence against women
-- Report: "These include an unknown number of 'honor killings' -- women who were killed by male relatives because their behavior was considered to have infringed traditional codes of 'honor.' Victims of 'honor crimes' include women who have objected to being forcibly married as well as women who were found having telephone contact with a man without approval of their family"
-- "The report cites one woman who was strangled to death apparently by her brother "because of her suspected relationship with another man." A 17-year-old female 'was shot dead after she sought a divorce from her husband.' A 13-year-old girl burned herself to death 'to escape forcible marriage to an adult man.'"
(Pakistan) Supreme Court rejects police report on women's live burial case
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\04\15\story_15-4-2009_pg7_17
(Afghanistan) Women protesters against 'marital rape' law spat on and stoned in Kabul
-- "Zara, an 18-year-old student from Kabul told The Times, as men in the crowd surrounding her jostled and screamed abuse. 'This law is against the dignity of women and all the international community opposes it. The US President calls it abhorrent. Don’t you see that actually we are the majority?'"
-- "Those in favour of the new Shia Family law chanted 'Down with the Christians. Down with the apostates.'"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6098614.ece
(Afghanistan) Daily Telegraph: "Afghan women's protest 'stoned' by conservatives"
-- "Afghan women protesting against a law said to legalise marital rape have been pelted with stones by conservative opponents in Kabul"
-- "Some conservative protestors chanted "Death to the slaves of the Christians!" or screamed that the women were 'dogs'"
-- "Masuma Hasani, a 14-year-old protestor who had been joined by both her parents and sister, said: 'I am concerned about my future with this law. We want our rights. We don't want women to just be used.'"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/5158232/Afghan-womens-protest-stoned-by-conservatives.html
-- Note: Daily Telegraph chooses to describe Islamic supremacists as "conservatives"
Afghan women protest against 'rape' - mostly video report
-- "The women were later pelted with stones by counter-protesting men, who shouted 'Death to the slaves of the Christians!'"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7999875.stm
-- Afghan women protest controversial law
http://www.chtv.com/ch/chchnews/story.html?id=1498696
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30223599/
(Pakistan) TNSM's Sufi Mohammad: "Women will have full protection and rights under Sharia. They will live a better life, but behind the veil."
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/swat-deal-gives-taliban-immunity-sufi-ts
(Saudi Arabia) Saudi Gazette: "Hai'a nabs young couple – and leaves them happier than ever!"
-- forced marriage couple claims happiness after Saudi police arrest them because they were "caught on a date"
http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentID=2009041535115
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