WW III: Third Millennium Misogyny August - September 2006
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Pakistan: Warm reception for Dr Tahira S. Khan, author of "Beyond Honour" 436
Maternal mortality: 529,000 deaths annually, the burden greatest in sub-Saharan Africa & South Asia 6746
Obstetric fistula: Increasing to 30,000–130,000 cases annually in Africa alone; 1582
Natasha Walter: Feminist activism to overcome the under-representation of women in the film industry 662
Scotland: Sex industry undergoing sinister change - men preferring foreign underage prostitutes 1465
US: The brutal world of teenage prostitution in Toledo, Ohio 1638
US: Antiwar activists & women's organizations rally behind accused army deserter Suzanne Swift 573
Afghanistan: Weak judiciary, lack of law enforcement & misogyny fuel rise in honour killings 664
Women compelled to leave their homes & countries open to new & old forms of violence & exploitation 567
Pakistan: Protection of Women (Criminal Laws Amendment) Bill cast aside [in tatters] 545
Sex Tourism: The client royalty. The Other, most often female, a sexual slave 775
Guatemala: 2,200 women murdered since 2001 559
Germany: Peril for lawyers, writers, social workers, teachers, standing up for Muslim women's rights 556
Pakistan: Musharraf's proposed Amended Hudood Ordinance Act disintergrates 661
UNFPA State of World Population 2006 1017
India: Hospital evicts pregnant HIV-positive woman with "pills" to perform self-abortion 525
Lucinda Marshall: How the Media Exploits Sexual Crimes 580
Equal Rites Awards 2006: Bush Jnr wins "The Man-Handling Prize" 589
Karnataka, India: High Court rules acid attack is attempted murder, hands down life sentence 584
Lucinda Marshall: Women Speaking Out about the Violence in the Middle East 653