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NEWS & LETTERS, October 2004

Women World Wide

by Mary Jo Grey

As the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence marks October as Domestic Violence Awareness month, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft is issuing new regulations restricting the range of gender-based persecution that would allow women to seek asylum in the U.S. This would keep women fleeing "honor killings," sexual slavery, rape, domestic violence, and other human rights violations that they suffer because of their gender, from getting protection in the U.S.

--Information from WOMEN'S HUMAN RIGHTS ONLINE BULLETIN

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Over 600 Turkish women marched on parliament in Ankara, Sept. 14, carrying signs reading: "State keep your hands off my body!" and "No to the male-dominated penal code." They protested a proposed government ban on adultery, saying it would be used primarily against women, including imprisonment and loss of custody of their children.

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