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The Best and the Brightest of the Catholic Bad Girls
We picketed bishops and Popes, stole their dresses, stood up at the consecration of the Eucharist and said the words out loud. We are the bad girls of Catholic feminism, and we have stood up, over and over again, for women's freedom.
Read more...Malaysia: Joint Statement by Civil Society Against Banning SIS (Sisters in Islam)
We the undersigned are deeply disturbed by the call on the part of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) to have Sisters in Islam (SIS) banned and its members rehabilitated should its activities be determined to be contrary to the Islamic shariah.
Read more...Malaysia: Public support growing for Sisters in Islam
PAS, the Islamist party, is coming under heavy attack for its call to ban the Sisters in Islam (SIS).
Read more...Iran: Women emerge as major political force
Reform candidates promise to enhance their role if elected
Read more...Iran: Election dispute fans unrest
Iran's president has defended his disputed re-election at a public rally in Tehran, insisting that the vote was not "distorted" as claimed by his rivals.
Read more...Iran's Forgotten Movement
In a country where over seventy percent of its population is under the age of thirty, the future of the Islamic Republic of Iran is undoubtedly in the hands of its youth.
Read more...Iranian Elections 2009: A New Spring?
From the stone carving adorning the War Museum in Tehran, two women, chadors wrapped tightly around them, stare grimly ahead. Their lips are contorted into determined frowns. One wields a rifle.
Read more...Scaling up women's influence on the Aid Effectiveness agenda
Cecilia Alemany gives an update on women's organisations' engagement with the global level policy making aspect of the Aid Effectiveness agenda. Cecilia is Manager of AWID's Influencing Development Actors and Practices for Women's Rights Strategic Initiative.
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