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June 21, 2010

Immigrant women in Denmark run into language barrier

Language schools are failing to teach Danish to women with an immigrant background causing issues with the integration […]
June 19, 2010

Saudi Women vow to breastfeed their drivers

Saudi women plan to turn a controversial fatwa (religious ruling) to their advantage and launch a campaign to […]
June 17, 2010

Police plea for victims to use honour-based crimes hotline

Detectives have carried out almost 100 investigations into “honour-based” violence and forced marriages in Peterborough (United Kingdom) thanks […]
June 16, 2010

“I killed my daughter. . . with my hands”

Aqsa Parvez, a 16-year old Pakistani-American, was killed in an honor killing in December 2007: her father has […]
June 15, 2010

Death by Stoning

An Iranian woman who was forced to marry an older man at age 14 was accused of adultery […]
June 14, 2010

Barcelona to ban burqa in municipal buildings

Barcelona is to become the first major Spanish city to bar the use of face-covering Islamic veils in […]
June 14, 2010

Teen stabbed in Dorval, mother facing charges

A Dorval mother will appear in court Monday to face charges after she allegedly stabbed her teenaged daughter, […]
June 14, 2010

Jordanian jailed for killing unwed pregnant sister

A Jordanian man was condemned to death on Monday for killing his sister after learning that she had […]
June 14, 2010

Sierra Leone: No Let-Up in Female Genital Mutilation

Activists are fighting a difficult battle in combating female genital mutilation. via:[http://allafrica.com/stories/201006141520.html]
June 14, 2010

Mother stabbed daughter in ‘honour crime’: Police

An Afghan mother in Montreal, Canada, has stabbed her 19-year old daughter in the head, shoulders and arms […]
June 13, 2010

Stinging memoir of a renegade Muslim

In the Financial Times, John Lloyd writes: confrontational, stinging, unsparing: Hirsi Ali has positioned herself at a pole […]
June 13, 2010

Woman fined for erratic driving caused by veil

Police in the city of Vaucluse (Southern France) have fined a woman driver for erratic driving caused by […]
June 13, 2010

Police om Birmingham and West Yorkshire (England) fail to respond to forced marriages campaign

Two police forces with some of the Great Britain’s largest Asian populations are ignoring appeals to participate in […]
June 11, 2010

German teachers to get guidelines on forced marriage

German teachers are to get guidelines on handling with pupils the issue of forced marriages, the government said […]
June 11, 2010

Help for those forced to wed in UK

Housing officers are to be given more training to help them identify and support victims of forced marriage: […]