Gender, Sexuality and the Criminal Laws in the Middle East and North Africa: A Comparative Study | The Global Campaign to Stop Killing and Stoning Women!

Author:

Dr. Sherifa Zuhur, Feburary 2005, Women for Women's Human Rights--NEW WAYS

Region:

Middle East

Country:

Middle East and North Africa

This study outlines key beliefs and principles that defined the course of legal approaches to issues affecting women in the Middle East and North Africa. Such topics include rape, adultery, honor killings, battery and wife-beating, murder, abortion, infanticide (where abortion is unavailable), sex trafficking, sex work, sexual abuse, incest, homosexuality, transsexuality, and FGM.

Download: http://www.wwhr.org/images/GenderSexualityandCriminalLaws.pdf