September 9-10, 2009 - War on Women News

(Pakistan) 'Fear of violence used to exclude women from public
sphere'
href="http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\09\11\story_11-9-2009_pg7_21">http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\09\11\story_11-9-2009_pg7_21

Iran: New female minister 'useless', says women's leader
-- regarding
Marzieh Vahid-Dastjerdi
-- "'The woman that has become a minister has no
rights, like all Iranian women,' Zand Ervin told Adnkronos International (AKI)
in an interview in Rome."
href="http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/CultureAndMedia/?id=3.0.3753680659">http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/CultureAndMedia/?id=3.0.3753680659
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Iran's Ahmadinejad pro-woman? Critics skeptical
href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5grnVirarcLW3KUOWdPOWE8ix6mWwD9AJL6EG0">http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5grnVirarcLW3KUOWdPOWE8ix6mWwD9AJL6EG0

Afghanistan: Judge deplores violence against women -- Marzia Basel states in
Rome
href="http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Politics/?id=3.0.3753557560">http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Politics/?id=3.0.3753557560

(South Africa) Bill to legalize Sharia marriages of women in South
Africa
BBC: "South Africa battle over Muslim women's rights"
href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8237097.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8237097.stm
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"Muslims have lived in South Africa for hundreds of years - but Islamic
marriages remain unrecognized in law, making divorce potentially disastrous for
women."
-- "For the past 15 years South Africa's Muslims have been discussing
the implementation of a so-called Muslim Personal Law - which would recognise
Islamic marriages."
-- "However, some clerics say South Africa's secular
constitution cannot be allowed to supersede Islamic law. "
-- "Mr de Vries,
and some other Muslims, fear Sharia law could be compromised by the secular
constitution."

(Australia) Refugee advocates win eight year battle in Australia
-- "It's
quite often women actually facing terrible circumstances, such as a potential
for an honour killing, a young girl facing return to a country class=270014814-11092009>face=Geneva> 

 where she may undergo female
genital mutilation, women who have suffered rape and then may actually face
execution as a result of that, you know people who may actually face the death
penalty"
href="http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/connectasia/stories/200909/s2681985.htm">http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/connectasia/stories/200909/s2681985.htm
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Visas to protect 'honour killing' refugees
href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/09/09/2680768.htm">http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/09/09/2680768.htm

(Sudan) Facebook: "We All together to Support the Sudanese Journalist
Lubna"
href="http://apps.facebook.com/causes/314483?m=a9635660">http://apps.facebook.com/causes/314483?m=a9635660
href="http://www.realcourage.org/2009/09/sudan-facebook-cause-we-all-together-to-support-the-sudanese-journalist-lubna/">http://www.realcourage.org/2009/09/sudan-facebook-cause-we-all-together-to-support-the-sudanese-journalist-lubna/
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Related report:
href="http://www.realcourage.org/?s=Lubna">http://www.realcourage.org/?s=Lubna
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Sudan: Woman Fined for Wearing Pants; Female Protesters Arrested and
Injured
href="http://www.realcourage.org/2009/09/sudan-update-on-lubna-al-hussein/">http://www.realcourage.org/2009/09/sudan-update-on-lubna-al-hussein/
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Sudanese woman in trouser case banned from travel
href="http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/sudanese-woman-in-trouser-case-banned-from-travel/">http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/sudanese-woman-in-trouser-case-banned-from-travel/
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Sudan: Police beat women opposing Sudan dress code trial
href="http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/sudan-police-beat-women/">http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/sudan-police-beat-women/
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Sudanese Feminist Hero Forced into Hiding — Phyllis Chesler report on Lubna
al-Hussein
href="http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/sudanese-feminist-in-hiding/">http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/sudanese-feminist-in-hiding/
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Sudan: Journalist Lubna Hussein prepares to test Sudan's Islamic law in
court
href="http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/sudan-journalist-lubna-hussein-prepares-to-test-sudans-islamic-law-in-court/">http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/sudan-journalist-lubna-hussein-prepares-to-test-sudans-islamic-law-in-court/
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Sudanese Woman Journalist Invites Press to Her Flogging to Demonstrate
Oppression of Women
href="http://www.realcourage.org/2009/07/sudanese-woman-journalist-invites-press-to-her-flogging-to-demonstrate-oppression-of-women/">http://www.realcourage.org/2009/07/sudanese-woman-journalist-invites-press-to-her-flogging-to-demonstrate-oppression-of-women/

(Sudan) "The chador and feminism don't always fit"
-- "Some romanticize
Islamic women's dress as liberating; the case of Lubna Hussein is a reminder of
the dark side of the veil"
href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-daum10-2009sep10,0,4040349.column">http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-daum10-2009sep10,0,4040349.column

(U.S.) 'We need to kill' Christian girl -- Teen who fled Muslim family gets
online threat -- Rifqa Bary
href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=109226">http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=109226

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