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Deeyah Khan's fascinating documentary about the Council of Ex-Muslims in Britain and the discrimination they have faced in the UK and abroad has been shortlisted for the Asian Media Awards in Investigative Journalism.

When People of Muslim Heritage Challenge Fundamentalism

By Karima Bennoune

This video is the follow-up talk to my TEDx talk from last year, which includes the stories of our friend Cherifa Kheddar's arrest in Algiers last March 8, and of the passing of Amel Zenoune's mother (the murdered Algerian law student from my last talk). It also includes my thoughts on "ISIS", expressed in my poem "Why I Hate 'Islamic State'".

Mariam Diallo Drame Speaks to France 24

WLUML networker from Mali, Mariam Diallo Drame spoke to France 24 ahead of International Women's Day 2015.

Lydia Alpízar (AWID), CSW59

Lydia Alpízar was one of the speakers back in 2007 in the New Volunteers Institute of Women Living Under Muslim Laws Solidarity Network. She was inspirational then and still. I am glad she is referring to culture as a source of violence against women - A reminder that we need to reclaim our culture as women and better as Feminists....

Noorjahan Akbar at TEDxLafayetteCollege: Education and empowerment in Afghanistan

In this TEDx talk, Afghan women's rights activist and WLUML networker Noorjahan Akbar shares her personal journey for getting an education and the impact that education has on empowering women around the world and in Afghanistan.

فيديو: الرقص في مصر الجديدة

فتيات رقصن بشكل مفاجيء أمس الجمعة في منطقة الكوربة في مصر الجديدة في إطار الحملة العالمية ”مليار ثائر لأجل العدالة 201

Force Feeding in West Africa: Body Image Experts Discuss Beauty Around The World

Young women in West Africa are routinely force fed to help them find a husband, say recent reports.

Very slim women are seen as poor and unable to afford food in West African culture, and overweight women look more affluent.

As a result big is not only beautiful, but a goal that women strive towards.

Our Own Harvard Fellow, Naureen Shameem, Delivers the Report on the Issue of Discrimination Against Women on behalf of the WHRD-IC

Our own Harvard Fellow, Naureen Shameem, delivered a statement on the report of the Working Group on the issue of Discrimination against Women in Law and Practice on behalf of the Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition and the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) on June 3^rd at the 23rd Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council.

CSW 57 Panel - Global Campaign to Stop Stoning: Why Stoning Is Violence Against Women

On March 8^th, 2013, Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) and its partner organisations gathered in New York during the 57^th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) to launch The Global Campaign to Stop Stoning Women.

MENA: Mona Eltahawy and Leila Ahmed discuss FP "Why DoThey Hate US" piece

There has been much controversy over a piece written by journalist Mona Eltahawy in the most recent issue of Foreign Policy Magazine entitled "Why Do They Hate Us: The Real War on Women is in the Middle East". Here Eltahawy and renouned scholar Leila Ahmed discuss the controversy.