Women's voices and perspectives in reaction to the military aggression in Lebanon, Palestine and Israel will be the focus of a marathon live broadcast via Internet entitled, “Voices of Resistance” on Friday, August 4, produced in Spanish and English by FIRE – Feminist International Radio Endeavour/Radio Internacional Feminista in Costa Rica.

Statement by Noeleen Heyzer, Executive Director, UNIFEM; Convenor, International Women's Commission for a Just and Sustainable Palestinian-Israeli Peace (IWC)

Ms. Yanar Mohammed, founder of the Organization for Women's Freedom in Iraq and Editor in Chief of the newspaper Al-Mousawat (Equality), received an e-mail threatening death if the activist continues her struggle against the US-appointed Iraqi Governing Council's Resolution 137.

Since the takeover of the interim government in Iraq, women have been increasingly subjected to rape, death and restriction of movement. Women have no protection from both the authorities and their own families, as the most reactionary Islamic norms and values are being brought back into force in the society because of these political changes.

To: President George W. Bush and U.S. Congress:
Whereas the only weapons of mass destruction in Iraq belong to the U.S. and its allies, and the U.S. government's profit-driven military policies are killing U.S. soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians, we, the undersigned stand in solidarity with those hardest hit by the occupation: the women of Iraq.

The Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq (OWFI) condemns the killings of women in Basra and Umara and calls for women's protection services. (OWFI via WiB)

As Iraq prepares to hold new parliamentary elections amid continuing controversy over the eligibility of many candidates, Amnesty International is appealing to the country's political leaders to ensure that both the election campaign and the vote on 7 March are conducted peacefully and fully conform with Iraq's obligations under international human rights law.

"From Inception to Executiion"is a virtual exhibition of photographs created by the young women of the Omid-e-Mehr Foundation in Tehran during workshops conducted by Hengameh Golestan and Omid Salehi in 2008 and 2009. All photographs are signed and printed in an edition of ten. All prints are for sale. Sales proceeds will go to support Omid's artistic programs and activities, with parts going to the photographers.

Since its inception in 2003, Creativity for Peace (a New Mexico nonprofit organization with operations in Israel and the Palestinian Territories) has brought 146 girls, ages 15-17, of Jewish, Muslim, and Christian faiths from Israel and Palestine to the United States for a summer camp program about peacemaking, using facilitated dialogue, art-making, field trips, and social time.

Afghanistan is what Amnesty International deems a "human rights catastrophe". Afghan women and girls have suffered mounting abuses, harassment and restrictions of their fundamental human rights.