But New Law Still Falls Short; Government Should Ensure Full Equality

The new nationality law will make it easier for some Libyan women married to men with other nationalities to pass on their citizenship to their children. But whether women gain full equality is going to depend on how fairly the new law is carried out.

Nadya Khalife, Middle East and North Africa women's rights researcher at Human Rights Watch

Tunisia's historical commitment to women's rights is being used by Ben Ali as a smokescreen for the persecution they now suffer

Tunisia's adoption - 54 years ago this month - of the most protective women's rights legislation in the Arab world is increasingly used by President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali as a veil to hide his declining human rights record.

Las Soulaiyates se componen de las mujeres Marroquíes que han visto violacione

In the United Arab Emirates, a country that prides itself on modernity and its willingness to advance women's rights, the criminal court in Abu Dhabi has sentenced an 18-year-old Emirati woman to a year in prison for illicit sex after she reported that six men had gang-raped her.