Thursday, April 22, 2010

April 21, 2010 War on Women News - Responsible for Equality And Liberty


Afghanistan: Girls inhale 'poison' at Kunduz school
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.1.281862305


(UK) Save Bita Ghaedi from Deportation and honour killing
http://www.onlydemocracy4iran.com/2010/04/21/save-bita-ghaedi-from-deportation-and-honour-killing/


Saudi Cleric Fired for Rejecting Segregation of Sexes – Ahmed Qassim Al-Ghamdi
-- Additional report with further background from Saudi Gazette
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/04/saudi-cleric-fired-for-rejecting-segregation/


(Egypt/U.S.) House Members Press White House to Confront Egypt on Forced Marriages
-- "Seventeen members of Congress are pressing the State Department to act on the "grim reality" faced by Coptic Christian women in Egypt, who frequently are coerced into violent forced marriages that leave them victim to rape and captive slavery."
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04/21/house-members-press-white-house-confront-egypt-forced-marriages/


Pakistan: 10-year-old raped, strangled
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\04\22\story_22-4-2010_pg12_1


(UAE) British woman goes to jail in Dubai kissing case -- Charlotte Adams
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/dubai/7613229/British-woman-goes-to-jail-in-Dubai-kissing-case.html
-- Hollywood glamour could boost tourism in Abu Dhabi
http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100404/BUSINESS/704049938/1001/1.3
-- Sex in the City 2 film tells story in UAE - but "was banned from being filmed in Abu Dhabi and Dubai despite writers basing the story in the region"
http://www.ahlanlive.com/20681-abu-dhabi-to-benefit-from-sex-and-the-city-2
-- see also January 2010: "UAE: British Woman Raped, Then Arrested and Put in Jail for 'Illegal Sex'"
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/01/uae-rape-victim-arrested/


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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/unitedstatesaction/

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