Post-conflict and Transitional Participation

A French women's rights group that led major marches to denounce violence to women in France's immigrant heavy suburbs is opening its first formal chapter in the Muslim world - in Morocco. But the reception is mixed for the group, with some finding its name - as well as its existence, offensive.Five years after it was launched, the rights group, Ni Putes Ni Soumises, or Neither Whores nor Submissive, has become a household name in France.

In an interview to the Tunisian monthly opinion magazine “Roua”, Tunisia’s First Lady, Mrs Leila Ben Ali said that Tunisia’s presidency of the Arab Women Organization (AWO) for the next two years “will follow up on the implementation of the Organization’s mechanisms and programs so as to give Arab women larger opportunities and wider prospects for participation.”

Rights activists demanding a change to Lebanon's discriminatory nationality law say they hope the issue will be debated at the few remaining Cabinet sessions before parliamentary elections on June 7. Campaigners have long been urging Lebanon change the 1925 law to allow women to confer their Lebanese nationality to their husbands and children.
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The progress made by Morocco in the field of gender equality is an example in the Arab world, visiting MP Lale Akgün from the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in the German federal parliament (Bundestag) said Tuesday.
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Delegation of Yemen, led by Minister for Human Rights Dr Huda al-Ban, taking part in Yemen report presented to UN’s Human Rights Council held in Geneva discussed the report of the Yemeni Republic. It reviewed the role that Yemen is playing in the field of human rights and the work it presents for pushing forward human rights. Minister al-ban clarified that Yemen established the ministry of human rights, works on protecting rights and reviewed structure of the ministry and the tasks it performs in the field of human rights.

The Malaysian government's introduction of various policies and programmes for women reflects on the recognition of their contributions to the nation's development. Girl Guides Association of Malaysia Chief Commissioner Datin Seri Zalihah Mohd Taib said the policies and programmes had also given an opportunity to women to play their role in politics, and in social and economic development.

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The European Women’s Lobby (EWL), calls on the Polish Presidency to continue to be a driving force for women’s rights in Europe and, in particular, to ensure progress in the adoption of gender-related legislation which is currently on the table, to ensure the full integration of a women’s rights and gender equality perspective in all European social and economic policies, including strands of the Europe2020 Strategy and to make sure that in the context of the negotiations of the new Multi Annual Framework 2014+, adequate and sustainable funding is allocated to activities related to human r

Haleh Sahabi is the latest Iranian woman to die in political violence. On Wednesday, security forces attempting to cut short the Tehran funeral of her father scuffled with Sahabi, 55, who died of an apparent heart attack.

Sahabi had been let out of prison, where she was serving a two-year term for human rights activism, to attend the funeral. A photo of her holding a picture of her father - Ezatollah Sahabi, a prominent dissident in his own right - just before her death has now joined other iconic images of Iran's simmering discontent.

The decision of the replacement of the Ministry of Women and Family Affairs by the newly established Ministry of Family and Social Policies, came espite massive protest of women organizations and a signature campaign with 3,000 participants submitted to the prime ministry on 6 June.