November 18, 2008

Turkish Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender solidarity organisation Lambda Istanbul's appeal against the closure of their association was to be considered at the Supreme Court of Appeals in Ankara on Tuesday 25 November, 2008.

May 25-29, 2009
Dubrovnik, Croatia

This year the organizers are looking for papers and presentations that address the ways in which we feminists and scholars reflect on the significance of spirituality, religiosity and secular thinking in our lives.

October 22, 2008

WLP colleagues from the Autonomous Women’s Movement (MAM) in Nicaragua have called our attention to the government’s raid and seizure of documents and computers from their offices on October 10th.The raid of MAM’s offices as well as the Centre for Investigation and Communication (CINCO) offices are another step of President Daniel Ortega’s government's campaign against civil society organizations, particularly feminists, who have been outspoken critics of his government.

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), has received new information and requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Iran.

November 04, 2008

13-year-old Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow was killed on Monday, 27 October 2008, by a group of 50 men who stoned her to death in a stadium in the southern port of Kismayu, Somalia in front of around 1,000 spectators.