March 4-5, 2010 - War on Women News - Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.)
UN: Thousands of honor killings each year
-- AFP: "Some 5,000 women are murdered in honour killings every year, the UN's top human rights official said Thursday, calling it an 'extreme symptom of discrimination.'"
-- "'It has been estimated that as many as one in three women across the world has been beaten, raped or otherwise abused during the course of her lifetime," said Navi Pillay in a statement. "Amongst the most extreme forms of abuse is what is known as 'honour killing'," added the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights."
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Thousands+honour+killings+each+year/2643124/story.html
-- Impunity for domestic violence, 'honour killings' cannot continue – UN official
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33971&Cr=violence+against+women&Cr1=
-- High Commissioner speaks out against domestic violence and "honour killing" on occasion of International Women's Day"
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/SMAR-8398KS?OpenDocument
Pakistan: Latest Honor Killing:How A Deleted Cellphone Video Led To Murder
http://pinayinpakistan.blogspot.com/2010/03/latest-honor-killinghow-deleted.html
Canada: Ottawa judge likely to handle alleged honour killing trial -- Shafia sisters "honor killing" in Kingston
-- "Three teenage Shafia sisters, Zainab, 19, Sahari, 17, and Geeti, 13, along with Rona Amir Mohammad, 50, were found dead inside a submerged car discovered June 30, 2009, in the Rideau Canal at Kingston Mills, just outside Kingston, Ont"
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2010/03/03/13096711-qmi.html
Report: Women still target of discriminatory laws
--- AP: "Five years after a U.N. conference called for the revocation of laws that discriminate on the basis of gender, a new report released Friday highlights 36 countries that still have laws that treat women as second-class citizens."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-03-05-discriminatory-laws_N.htm
-- AFP: "Women's rights improving in Middle East: study" (??)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hokvTYsg3NerACpfbqW0PVUMWZJA
Saudi Arabia: Unchaperoned Saudi woman to get 300 lashes
-- AFP reports: "A SAUDI woman's to get 300 lashings and 18 months' prison for filing complaints against court officials and being in court without a male guardian."
-- "A human rights group said today Sawsan Salim was convicted last month in a court in Rass, in Qassim province, after petitioning officials in the kingdom's capital Riyadh."
http://www.news.com.au/world/unchaperoned-woman-to-get-300-lashes/story-e6frfkyi-1225836750262
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/03/saudi-arabia-unchaperoned-saudi-woman-to-get-300-lashes/
Remember Du'a public seminar in London
-- "On the 7th of April 2007 Du'a Khalil Aswad was brutally stoned to death in front of 2000 men, the killers included her uncle and some of her closest relatives in the Town of Bashiqa."
http://houzanmahmoud.blogspot.com/2010/03/remember-dua-public-seminar-in-london_05.html
Colorado: Reports of Blackouts Believed Caused by 'Date Rape' Drugs Boom in Aspen
http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/aspen-colorado-sees-increase-reports-date-rape-drug/story?id=10012176
"The Goddess That Failed" - by Phyllis Chesler
http://pajamasmedia.com/phyllischesler/2010/03/05/the-goddess-that-failed/?singlepage=true
Malaysia: Ex-PM's daughter slams Malaysian daily for killing caning column
http://www.torontosun.com/news/world/2010/03/04/13107901.html
Malaysia: Beer drinking model's fate shrouded in secrecy
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2010/s2836896.htm
Ohio: Rifqa's judge orders counseling
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/03/03/rifqas-judge-orders-counseling.html?sid=101
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