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Women’s Learning Partnership: for Rights, Development and Peace

Posted in Citizenship, Feminism, Global Civil Society, Human Rights, Nationality, Rights of Woman, Women's Learning Parntership, Women's rights on June 21, 2007 | 4 Comments »

I’ve been meaning to write about this wonderful network – the Women’s Learning Partnership (WLP) – before but have been procrastinating.
No time like the present:
In a nutshell, they’re about female empowerment as part of human equality, and positive thinking : they’re a network of networks – they work with 18 autonomous and independent [...]

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On troubling Hadiths

Posted in Al-Azl, Coitus Interruptus, Hadiths, History, Islam, Middle Ages, Rape, Religion, Rights of Woman, Sexuality, Social History, War on May 30, 2007 | 11 Comments »

A few thoughts on hadiths and religion in general:
I had a difficult relationship with religion while I was growing up. As a child, I used to be a voracious reader and stumbled upon lots of things, including the Hadith collection my parents had. Now there was one particular Hadith that I read when i was [...]

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