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Women's Action Archive

IMPORTANT: These Women’s Action campaigns have been completed, discontinued or updated, and some of the information contained in these past Women’s Actions may not be current. The Women’s Actions in this archive are available only for reference, and should not be used for current campaigning. For information about current and ongoing Equality Now campaigns, please see Current Actions.

Women's Action 1.1: 1992
Poland: Medical Society Bars Doctors from Performing Legal Abortions

Women's Action 1.2: Update/June 1992
Poland: Medical Society Bars Doctors from Performing Legal Abortions

Women's Action 2.1: October 1992
Canada: Saudi Arabian Refugee Fleeing Gender Discrimination Not Welcome in Canada

Women's Action 2.2: Update/February 1993
Canada: Saudi Arabian Refugee Fleeing Gender Discrimination Allowed to Remain in Canada

Women's Action 3.1: February 1993
Bosnia-Herzegovina: Mass Rape, Forced Pregnancy, Genocide

Women's Action 3.2: Update/June 1993
Bosnia-Herzegovina: Mass Rape, Forced Pregnancy, Genocide

Women's Action 3.3: Update/April 1994
Bosnia-Herzegovina: Mass Rape, Forced Pregnancy, Genocide

Women's Action 3.4: Update/August 1995
Bosnia-Herzegovina: Rape, Forced Removal, Genocide

Women's Action 3.5: Update/April 1999
Kosovo: Forced Removal, Rape, Genocide

Women's Action 3.6: Update/August 2001
Bosnia-Herzegovina: Rape, Forced Removal, Genocide

Women's Action 4.1: December 1993
Japan: The Death of Maricris Sioson

Women's Action 5.1: November 1993
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM): UNICEF's failure to fund efforts to stop FGM

Women's Action 6.1: May 1994
South Africa: Rape and Violence Against Women at the Durban Train Station

Women's Action 7.1: December 1994
United States: Judicial Misconduct in the State of Maryland - The Peacock Case

Women's Action 8.1: March 1995
Egypt: Government Efforts to Medicalize Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)

Women's Action 8.2: Update/December 1995
Egypt: Government Revokes Directive that Medicalized Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)

Women's Action 8.3: Update/July 1997
Egypt: Court Asserts Doctors' Right to Perform Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)

Women's Action 8.4: Update/February 1998
Egypt: Highest Court Upholds Minister's Ban on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)

Women's Action 9.1: April 1996
United States: Female Genital Mutilation and Political Asylum - The Case of Fauziya Kasinga

Women's Action 9.2: Update/April 1996
United States: Female Genital Mutilation and Political Asylum - The Case of Fauziya Kasinga

Women's Action 9.3: Update - June 1996
United States: Political Asylum for Fear of Female Genital Mutilation - The Kasinga Case

Women's Action 10.1: June 1996
Nepal: Abortion Imprisonment-The Case of Lok Maya Adhikari

Women's Action 10.2: Update/May 1998
Nepal: Maternal Mortality and The Criminalization of Abortion/The Death of Bimla

Women's Action 10.3: Update/November 2002
Nepal: Success in the Decriminalization of Abortion

Women's Action 11.1: August 1996
The United Nations: Consideration of Women Candidates in the Election of the Secretary-General

Women's Action 11.2: Update/November 2005
The Next United Nations Secretary-General: Time for a Woman

Women's Action 11.3: Update/November 2005
A Call on the United Nations Secretary-General for Gender Balance in the U.N. Secretariat

Women's Action 12.1: December 1996
Sex Tourism: "Real Sex with Real Girls, All for Real Cheap"

Women's Action 12.2: Update/March 2004
Sex Tourism: Big Apple Oriental Tour Operators Indicted for Promoting Prostitution

Women's Action 12.3: Update/October 2005
Sex Tourism: Big Apple Oriental Tour Operators Re-Indicted for Promoting Prostitution

Women's Action 13.1:: July 1997
The Gambia: Government Censorship of the Campaign to Stop Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)

Women's Action 13.2: Update/December 1997
The Gambia: Government Rescinds Censorship Policy on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)

Women's Action 14.1: March 1998
Slavery in Ghana: The Trokosi Tradition

Women's Action 14.2: Update/January 1999
Ghana: Legislation Enacted to Criminalize the Trokosi Tradition of Enslavement

Women's Action 14.3: Update/May 2002
Ghana: Slavery in Ghana—The Trokosi Tradition

Women's Action 15.1: October 1998
Trinidad and Tobago: The Imminent Execution of a Battered Woman and Her Defenders

Women's Action 15.2: Update/July 2000
Trinidad and Tobago: The Imminent Execution of a Battered Woman's Defenders

Women's Action 16.1: July 1999
Words and Deeds: Holding Governments Accountable in the Beijing+5 Review Process

Women's Action 16.2: Update/November 1999
Words and Deeds: Holding Governments Accountable in the Beijing+5 Review Process

Women's Action 16.3: Update/March 2000
Words and Deeds: Holding Governments Accountable in the Beijing+5 Review Process

Women's Action 16.4: Update/July 2000
Words and Deeds: Holding Governments Accountable in the Beijing+5 Review Process

Women's Action 16.6: Update/September 2004
Words and Deeds: Holding Governments Accountable in the Beijing+5 Review Process

Women's Action 16.7: Update/May 2004
Words and Deeds: Holding Governments Accountable in the Beijing+5 Review Process

Women's Action 16.8: Update/May 2005
Words and Deeds: Holding Governments Accountable in the Beijing+5 Review Process

Women's Action 17.1: August 2000
Uganda: Exclusion of Women from Land Ownership/The "Lost Cause"

Women's Action 17.2: Update/November 2004
Uganda: Exclusion of Women from Land Ownership/The "Lost Cause"

Women's Action 18.1: December 2000
Jordan: National Efforts to Confront "Honor Killings" and to Protect Women from Violence

Women's Action 18.2: Update/November 2002
Jordan: National Efforts to Confront "Honor Killings" and to Protect Women from Violence

Women's Action 19.1: January 2001
Kuwait: The Struggle for Women's Suffrage

Women's Action 19.2: Update/May 2005
Kuwait: The Struggle for Women's Suffrage—Success at Last

Women's Action 20.1: June 2001
Tanzania: Failing to Enforce the Law Against Female Genital Mutilation

Women's Action 20.2: Update/April 2006
Tanzania: Enforcement of the Law Against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)

Women's Action 21.1: October 2001
Afghanistan: Terrorism, the Taliban and the Role of Women in Peace and Security

Women's Action 21.2: Update/April 2002
Afghanistan: Peace, Security and the Role of Women

Women's Action 21.3: Update/December 2004
Afghanistan: Access to Justice for Afghan Women

Women's Action 21.4: Update/December 2006
Afghanistan: Access to Justice for Afghan Women—A New Chief Justice

Women's Action 21.5: Update/October 2007
Afghanistan: Peace and Security Undermined: Suspension of Malalai Joya from Parliament

Women's Action 22.1: March 2002
Ethiopia: Official License for Abduction and Rape

Women's Action 22.2: Update/February 2004
Ethiopia: Official License for Abduction and Rape

Women's Action 22.3: Update/November 2004
Ethiopia: Abduction and Rape—Law Reform and the Case of Woineshet Zebene Negash

Women's Action 22.4: Update/June 2005
Ethiopia: Abduction and Rape—Law Reform and the Case of Woineshet Zebene Negash

Women's Action 23.1: June 2003
United States: The Role of Military Forces in the Growth of the Commercial Sex Industry

Women's Action 23.2: Update/March 2006
United States: The Role of Military Forces in the Growth of the Commercial Sex Industry

Women's Action 24.1: March 2004
Hawaii: Legislation to End Sex Tourism and Hold Sex Tour Operators Accountable

Women's Action 24.2: Update/May 2004
Hawaii: Legislation Passed to End Sex Tourism and Hold Sex Tour Operators Accountable

Women's Action 25.1: July 2004
Mali: Calling for a Law Against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)

Women's Action 29.1: March 2007
Iran: Stoning to Death for Adultry—Discriminatory Laws Target Iranian Women

Women's Action 29.2: July 2008
Iran: Kobra Najjar Faces Imminent Execution by Stoning for Prostitution