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Algérie: Peine de prison pour avoir mangé pendant le Ramadan

Secularism Is A Women's Issue - Alerte Action Urgente - Campagne internationale. Demandons la libération immédiate des condamnés et la révision du procès!

Mise à jour: Algérie: Les dernières nouvelles concernant Cherifa Kheddar

Appel du Réseau international de solidarité Femmes Sous Lois Musulmanes / Women Living under Muslim Laws International Solidarity Network aux organisations citoyennes nationales et internationales:

Mise à jour: France: M. Sifaoui mérite la protection permanente

Mohamed Sifaoui, journaliste, écrivain et réalisateur Algérien exilé en France a été violemment agressé par des islamistes à Paris le vendredi 13 juin. Depuis 2003 il bénéficiait d'une protection policière mais depuis 6 mois elle le lui a été retirée. M. Sifaoui, défenseur bien connu des droits humains et des droits humains des femmes, mérite la protection permanente de la France.

France: Ensure police protection for Mohamed Sifaoui

Mohamed Sifaoui - an Algerian journalist, writer and director living in exile in France - was violently attacked by Islamists in Paris on Friday, June 13th 2008. Why? For his tireless and courageous struggle against fundamentalisms and his defence of secularism. Since 2003 he has benefited from police protection, but since January 2008 it has been withdrawn.

UPDATE: Nigeria: Local women's groups protest bill on 'indecent clothing'

The following is an update provided by BAOBAB - For Women's Human Rights, a women's rights organization based in Nigeria. This is a brief report on the Public Hearing held in July 2008 regarding a proposed bill which, if made into law, would regulate styles of clothing on the grounds this would curb sexual intimidation and other sexual offences. The women who conducted research, presented their findings and demands, spoke out at the public hearing and aired their concerns with the world are to be commended for their actions and commitment to fighting discriminatory laws.

Canada: Polygamous communities persist on grounds of 'religious freedom'

The polygamous communities of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) - a branch of Mormonism - have openly practiced forced and underage marriages, incest, and abuse for decades. Under the clause of 'religious freedoms', however, this practice has been permitted to continue in the Canadian province of British Columbia and lengthy court cases have been further delayed by repeated appointments of special investigators.

France: Mohamed Sifaoui est en danger de mort

Mohamed Sifaoui, journaliste, écrivain et réalisateur Algérien exilé en France a été violemment agressé par des islamistes à Paris le vendredi 13 juin. Motif? Son inlassable et courageux combat contre les intégristes et pour la laïcité. Depuis 2003 il bénéficiait d'une protection policière mais depuis 6 mois elle le lui a été retirée.

Iran: Six leading members of the Bahá’í faith detained

Six leaders of a group managing the Baha'i community's religious and administrative affairs in Iran were arrested at their homes by officers from the Ministry of Intelligence on 14 May 2008, and are now detained in Evin Prison in Tehran. A seventh person, acting secretary for the group, Mahvash Sabet, has been in detention since 5 March. The Baha'i community has long been persecuted by the Iranian government, especilly since the Iranian Revolution.

UPDATE: Nepal: Women human rights defender murdered

The following is an update on the situation in the Kanchanpur district of Nepal where women human rights defender Laxmi Bohara was murdered by her husband and mother-in-law. Further women activists are now being threatened and attacked.

Nigeria: Protest the proposed law on 'indecent clothing'

BAOBAB for Women’s Human Rights has issued an alert regarding the “Bill for an Act to Prohibit and Punish Public Nudity, Sexual Intimidation and Other Related Offences in Nigeria”.