Empowerment

Palestine/Israel: Adalah - the Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel

Established in November 1996, Adalah (Justice in Arabic) is the first non-profit, non-sectarian Palestinian-run legal center in Israel.

Worldwide: Islamic Feminism - what's in a name?

Islamic feminism is on the whole more radical than Muslims' secular feminisms, argues Margot Badran.

Afrique de L'Ouest: Projet de formation visant a une meilleure comprehension des droits des femmes

La clé: renforcer les compétences, créer des liens… et les garder vivants!

Afghanistan: Support for ministry of women's affairs

Rights and Democracy sends emergency aid for Afghan women.

Discrimination against women in Arab world 'legally sanctioned' agree experts

Legal experts found similarities in their respective countries' legislation that were discriminatory towards women.

Maroc: Femmes et discours religieux extremistes

Le Centre d’information et d’observation des femmes (CIOFEM), une émanation de la Ligue Démocratique des Droits de la Femme (LDDF) vient d’organiser à Casablanca le 26 janvier 2002 un colloque international sur le thème Femmes et discours religieux.

Afghanistan: Turning back the Afghan clock

Sima Samar's vision for Afghanistan.

Worldwide: Women's Human Rights Net (WHRNet)

WHRNet relaunch their news section for International Human Rights Day.

Afghanistan: Update on the Declaration of the Essential Rights of Afghan Women

Negar-Support of Women of Afghanistan was invited to attend the transfer of power ceremonies in Kabul on December 22, 2001.

Occasional Paper 11: Constructing the Notion of Male Superiority over Women in Islam: The influence of sex and gender stereotyping in the interpretation of the Qur’an and the implications for a modernist exegesis of rights

The author is indebted to the American Association of University Women Education Foundation for an International fellowship enabling her to undertake this research and to Dr. Marlyn Tadros for her kind assistance in translating works relied upon in this paper.