"Traditional Values" vs Human Rights at the UN
February 18, 2013OpenDemocracyA dangerous process is taking place in the UN system that threatens the universality of human rights by seeking to make them contingent on subjective ‘traditional values’...
View ArticleVatican, Iran resist UN effort fighting violence on women
March 4, 2013APThe Vatican, Iran and other religious states are resisting efforts by a UN conference, which started Monday, to demand tougher global standards to prevent violence against women and...
View ArticleUN Women: culture must not block progress on stopping gender violence
March 4, 2013The GuardianCommission on Status of Women opens in New York, but Iran, Russia and Vatican thought to be lobbying against key proposals.Culture and religion must not be allowed to block...
View ArticlePakistan: Opponents of girls’ right to education violate Islam, ambassador...
March 7, 2013DAWNUNITED NATIONS: “Those who deny women and girls their right to education, violate Islam,” Pakistan’s UN Ambassador Masood Khan told an audience at the world body on Monday. He said the...
View ArticleBangladesh: Islamists Demand that Bangladesh's Women Stay at Home
May 17, 2013Global Voices OnlineMembers of Hifazat-e-Islam, a radical Islamist party in Bangladesh, attacked female journalists on assignment as the group marched in the country's capital to demand...
View ArticleAct Now to Oppose Russian Resolution on Traditional Values: Universality of...
September 6, 2012ARC-InternationalAt the current session of the UN Human Rights Council, Russia has tabled a resolution seeking to promote “traditional values” as a basis for human rights. Numerous UN...
View ArticleSultan of Brunei introduces tough Islamic punishments
October 24, 2013Al AhramTough Sharia Penal Code introduced Tuesday has been in the works for years and is expected to be phased in in upcoming six months The Sultan of Brunei introduced tough...
View ArticleStoning: Legal or Practised in 16 Countries and Showing No Signs of Abating
April, 2014This brief report was created by WLUML as a submission to the UN Secretary General for the 27th session of the Human Rights Council (HRC) on the question of the death penalty.WLUML outline...
View ArticleMeriam Ibrahim: What is really going on in Sudan?
July 2, 2014The TelegraphThe arrest, release and then rearrest of Meriam Ibrahim is not really about visas, exit stamps and plane tickets, writes Harriet Alexander. Instead it's a potent cocktail of...
View ArticleIslamic State takes up stoning in Syria
July 21, 2014Al Jazeera AmericaActivists say the Al-Qaeda breakaway group stoned a woman to death for adultery in an incident shrouded in 'mystery'
View ArticleIraqi ‘sex workers’ slaughtered amid culture of fear and secrecy
August 6, 2014Times of IndiaBAGHDAD: Apartment blocks near a mosque and a kindergarten daubed with cartoon characters seem an unlikely place for the slaughter of 27 alleged sex workers, but in Baghdad...
View ArticleTwo Women Stoned to Death for 'Adultery' by ISIS in Syria
January 7, 2015International Business TimesIn separate incidents in a span of 24 hours, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) carried out executions against two woman in Syria, sentencing them to...
View ArticleSyria ‘adulteress’ survives militant stoning
February 5, 2015AFPA Syrian woman stoned by the militant Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group for alleged adultery and left for dead has miraculously walked away from the brutal punishment, a...
View ArticleWomen's rights in the Indonesian province of Aceh: "The population is being...
April 8, 2015QantaraAzriana Rambe Manalu, 46, and Samsidar, 48, are two of the best-known women in Aceh. In this interview with Christina Schott, they talk about how the introduction of Sharia in Aceh...
View ArticleMan, woman face lashes in western Afghanistan for adultery
September 3, 2015RAWAProvincial police confirmed execution of the sentence adding measures were in place to safeguard the eventA local court passed the sentence in accordance with the Sharia law and...
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