(Saudi Arabia) Saudi "Human Rights Commission (HRC)" criticizes report on women and Hai'a work
-- Saudi HRC defends "work of "Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Hai'a)"
-- "Zaid Aal Hussein, Deputy Chairman of the HRC, said the report by Yakin Erturk, the
Human Rights Council's Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes
and consequences, following a recent visit to the Kingdom was incorrect in its description
of the Hai'a as being a 'source of fear to women.'"
http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentID=2009060840229&archiveissuedate=08/06/2009
--- referencing report described by Arab News as "US rapporteur sees rights situation improving"
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=123378&d=8&m=6&y=2009&pix=kingdom.jpg&category=Kingdom
Saudi woman minister needs permission to be on TV
-- Noura al-Faiz: "I don't take my veil off and I will not appear on television unless it is allowed for us to do so"
-- "Faiz also dismissed calls for girls to be allowed to do sport at school, which Saudi Arabia's
powerful religious establishment has prevented"
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL8370807
(Saudi Arabia) Camera phones seized from female teachers, schoolgirls
-- "only camera phones having women's pictures were destroyed"
http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentID=2009060539987&archiveissuedate=05/06/2009
(Netherlands) Amsterdam: District to start program against forced marriage
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/06/amsterdam-district-to-start-program.html
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