"Hundreds of children fearing for their lives have called a new national helpline set up to assist victims of forced marriages since its launch four months ago, The Independent has learnt."
AWID interviews Farida Shaheed - active in the women’s rights movement in Pakistan for over 25 years - about women’s rights activism in Pakistan, the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, and the hopes of the women’s rights movement.
In 2001, Laura Pina helped found the Women's Caucus, an NGO that addresses women's issues. The following year Timor ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
Much more needs to be done to improve the status of women in Yemen, the poorest country in the Arabian Peninsula, in line with the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), officials said.
Le lundi 22 septembre 2008 s’est déroulé, à‘la ‘Casa de convalesencia’ attachée à l’Université Autonome de Barcelone, une conférence – lancement du Groupe International d’Etude et de Réflexion sur Les Femmes en Islam.
"The first lady of Qatar walked up to the podium in a luxury hotel banquet room and sized up the crowd of mostly wealthy businessmen. "Do not be afraid to take risks and to try," she told them. 'Think out of the box.'"
The first American woman to translate the Sublime Quran into English has now narrated her pioneering translation into an easy and accessible audio book format.
