A group of teachers and students from Alliance Girls High School and Dartmouth University in the United States have launched an anti-Female Genital Mutilation campaign in Marakwet district. In addition to fighting FGM, campaigners are pushing parents to send girls to school as they do boys. Thanks to their efforts, girls in Marakwet will hopefully have a brighter future!
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A 14-year-old girl in western Uganda is still unable to walk 10 months after her father tortured her for leaving Islam and putting her faith in Christ, according to area Christians.
Via: [http://www.compassdirect.org/english/country/uganda/article_116148.html]
Ida Lichter writes that attempts to introduce Sharia family law into Western societies run against the tide of reforms spearheaded by female activists in the Muslim world.
Via:[http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/sharia-law-in-the-west-goes-against-fight-for-reforms/story-e6frg6ux-1226111214151]
On TrustLaw, Danielle Liffman profiles Ayaan Hirsi Ali and the work of the AHA Foundation.
Via:[http://www.trust.org/trustlaw/blogs/the-word-on-women/trustlaw-women-contest-who-is-your-all-time-heroine-ayan-hirsi-ali]
Jonathan Wynne-Jones takes a closer look at Sharia tribunals operating in the UK.
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The two teenagers met inside an ice cream factory through darting glances before roll call, murmured hellos as supervisors looked away and, finally, a phone number folded up and tossed discreetly onto the workroom floor. It was the beginning of an Afghan love story that flouted dominant traditions of arranged marriages and close family scrutiny, a romance between two teenagers of different ethnicities that tested a village’s tolerance for more modern whims of the heart. The results were delivered with brutal speed.
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Most safe-houses in the Gaza Strip are meant to provide protection for armed militants on Israel’s target list. Now Gaza is offering protected shelter to battered Palestinian women.
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Radio station Ashams in Israel has launched a petition campaign to battle ‘honor’ killings of women, forcing public debate on a topic long swept under the carpet. “Killing women is not acceptable in the 21st century,” Suhel Karram, chief executive of the radio station said, “not for so-called family honor or any other reason.”
