Gender, Sexuality and the Criminal Laws in the Middle East and North Africa: A Comparative Study

Author: 
Dr. Sherifa Zuhur, Women for Women's Human Rights--NEW WAYS
Publication Date: 
February, 2005

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.

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