After initial denials, Israel has admitted that medical authorities have been giving Ethiopian women long-term contraceptive drugs and it has been alleged that this was done without the women's consent.
If the allegations are proven, this practice may fit the legal definition of genocide.
A peace center recently opened in Sulu in line with the government's program in Localizing the National Action (LNAP) on Women, Peace and Security in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).
After years of protesting Iran's human rights violations of political prisoners, Mansoureh Behkish is soon to become a political prisoner herself. Behkish has been summoned by the Iranian authorities to report to the Evin prison in Iran on 29 January 2013 to start a six-month sentence for her involvement with the nonviolent Mourning Mothers movement.
A prominent Iranian human rights lawyer was returned to prison on Monday, unexpectedly curtailing a three-day temporary leave to visit her family, which was expected to be extended.
Nasrin Sotoudeh, who has been serving a six-year prison sentence since September 2010, was granted her first furlough from Tehran's Evin Prison on 17 January on production of a hefty bail.
In 2004, a Kurdish woman was shot dead in her hospital bed in Istanbul for having had a baby out of wedlock. Her life was taken by relatives as the price of redeeming family honor. Last week, another Kurdish woman was shot dead in Paris because of her prominent role in one of the world's bloodiest guerrilla groups. Her life was taken by unknown assassins in an apparent bid to sabotage Ankara's fledgling efforts for peace with the rebels.
Rabia Mariam is a businesswoman who employs an all-women workforce to manufacture scarves and rugs from silk, cotton-silk blend, and wool in Mazar-e-Sharif, in northern Afghanistan. Working with the USAID IDEA-NEW program, she employs nearly 1,000 women - many of them widows. Many of these Afghan women raise silkworms at home and boil cocoons, and go to weaving centers to weave the scarves and other handicrafts.
Without a doubt, the inevitable fall of the murderous Iranian regime of Ayatollahs will be brought about by the female fighters.
The Iranian Resistance is mainly composed of women, and not surprisingly its President, Maryam Rajavi, is a woman. This is a thorn in the side of the cruel religious regime, and which is why they have further exacerbated the repression of women.
Last weekend, Saudi security forces encircled and arrested a small group of women who were protesting the long-term detention of relatives without charges on suspicion of terrorism, and the event has touched off nearly a week of unrest in the Saudi town of Buraida.
... The women (several of whom had been appointed to the highest level of the MEK hierarchy – the Leadership Council which directly serves Massoud Rajavi and his wife, Maryam), described a bizarre process of preparation for their sexual encounter with Rajavi which was facilitated by and presided over by Maryam Rajavi, who, they said, procured specific women from the membership for Massoud's use.
