KABUL (AFP) Rarely seen without a smile on her face, Shukria Barakzai is one of the most successful women in male-dominated Afghanistan — a member of parliament who hopes one day to be president.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gOBNy9FXd8qHT59Ghdsw0xgVgf6Q
Chad Groening – OneNewsNow – 3/6/2009
A poll conducted by Compass Research for CFAC shows that 85 percent of Canadians do not want the government to legalize polygamy.
CASABLANCA, Morocco (AFP) It was backed by the king and finally passed, a hotly disputed reform to empower women, cast off their vulnerability and set a trend in Muslim North Africa — Morocco’s landmark 2004 family law.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jCcvvfe-yMuH8NLmYpQCCAnV2INQ
Christians side with Muslims on decriminalization
John Ivison, National Post
Published: Thursday, March 05, 20
Polygamy came to Parliament Hill yesterday, as opponents of decriminalization opened a political front in their campaign to ensure that marriage remains a union limited to two people.
Sun, 03/08/2009 12:45 PM
The Jakarta chapter of the Independent Journalists Alliance (AJI Jakarta) presented the SK Trimurti Award last year to the secretary-general of the Indonesian Women’s Coalition (KPI) Masruchah in recognition of her excellent work and dedication to women’s empowerment.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/03/08/masruchah039s-work-gender-equality.html
Kurniawan Hari , THE JAKARTA POST , JAKARTA | Sun, 03/08/2009
The Religious Affairs Ministry recently submitted the religious court on marriage bill to the State Secretariat for the President to endorse. Once the President endorses the draft bill, the House of Representatives still needs to approve it before it becomes law. If the bill is passed into law, the practice of nikah siri (unregistered marriage) will be banned and men will have to comply with certain requirements if they want to take a second wife.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/03/08/masruchah-secret-marriage-not-islamic-tradition.html
In Iran, a woman can to be stoned to death for committing adultery, whereas a man can have up to four wives and any number of “temporary” wives. A woman must cover her head and body at all times in public, and if she refuses can be punished, sometimes in seventh-century fashion, by flogging.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/26/irans-women-are-taking-on_n_170138.html
Thousands of men are milking the benefits system to support several wives.
Canadian Muslim leaders admitted that hundreds of Muslim men in Ontario are now claiming welfare and social benefits for their multiple wives. This is welfare fraud.
From Governor Janet Napolitano down, Arizona authorities have protected polygamous sexual predators with their indifference
By John Dougherty
Published on August 07, 2003
“This is laughable,” scoffs CindiNannetti, Maricopa County’s sex-crimes bureau chief, as she finishes reading a three-page report prepared by the Colorado City Police Department — an agency controlled by fundamentalist Mormon polygamists along the Arizona-Utah border
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2003-08-07/news/eyes-wide-shut/
