March 23, 2010 - War on Women News - Responsible for Equality And Liberty

Saudi Woman Criticizes Muslim Clerics in TV Poetry Contest – Gets Death Threats
-- Hissal Hilal
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/03/hissa-hilal/

Pakistan: 647 women killed in the name of 'honor' last year
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\03\23\story_23-3-2010_pg1_7

Turkey: 17 women killed, 26 commit suicide in 2 months
-- Report also references "honor killings," stating "More than one thousand one hundred women were killed in this way during the five-year period 2003-2007"
http://www.ansamed.info/en/news/ME03.XAM17362.html

Save Children Now News:

Yemen: Ban on Child Brides Is Imperiled
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/03/yemen-ban-on-child-brides-is-imperiled/
-- AP reports: "Some of Yemen's most influential Muslim leaders have declared supporters of a ban on child brides to be apostates"
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/23/world/middleeast/23briefs-Yemenbf.html
-- Yemen: "Women oppose child marriage ban"
-- Straits Times reports: "The protesters held up banners proclaiming 'don't ban what Allah made permissible,' or 'stop violating Islamic sharia law in the name of rights and freedoms,' an AFP correspondent said. Answering calls by Muslim clerics who oppose the proposal on grounds it goes against Islamic sharia law, the protesters arrived in organised buses."
http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/World/Story/STIStory_504831.html

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