August 11, 2009 War on Women News - Reponsible for Equality And Liberty

Mali: Threats of violence greet new family code
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/mali-threats-of-violence-greet-new-family-code-offering-rights-for-women/
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"While rights groups are celebrating a newly-adopted family code in
Mali that changes marriage laws and expands girls' rights, Muslim
leaders and youths have vowed, even threatening violence, to block the
code from becoming law."
-- "The code -- under discussion for 10
years before its adoption on 3 August -- includes more than 1,100 new
articles, including setting the legal minimum age for marriage at 18,
abolishing the death penalty, recognizing only secular marriages and
expanding inheritance rights to girls. The code must be approved by the
president to become law."
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/65ee8153f8163b88ce65bd67b2e9ff34.htm

Egypt: Report on Increasing Islamic Supremacist Intolerance to Women, Christians
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/egypt-report-on-increasing-islamic-supremacist-intolerance-to-women-christians/
-- NYT report: On Beaches, Intolerance Wears a Veil
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/world/middleeast/12iht-letter.html
-- also addresses increasing violence against Christians
--- "there are sharper signs of intolerance: increasing Christian-Muslim clashes, unfamiliar to old Alexandrine eyes"
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"On April 4, a Muslim man was allegedly stabbed by his Coptic Christian
landlords in a dispute over garbage collection, according to a July 30
report by the Cairo-based Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, a
human rights watchdog. When the man died the next day, Muslims praying
at a mosque in the city's Karmouz district chanted 'they will die'
and then trashed Christian-owned stores, the report said."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/world/middleeast/12iht-letter.html

Sudanese woman in trouser case banned from travel
-- "Sudan has
barred Lubna Hussein, a woman who faces 40 lashes for wearing trousers
in violation of decency laws, from travelling abroad, she said on
Tuesday."
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\08\12\story_12-8-2009_pg7_36

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