Gender, sexuality and the criminal laws in the Middle East and North Africa
Subtitle: a comparative study
By: Sherifa Zuhur.
Contributors: Women for Women's Human Rights. New Ways.
Series: Women for women's human rights report; Women for women's human rights reports
Publisher: WWHR - New Ways
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Istanbul, Turkey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 76
Subjects: Women's rights -- Middle East.; Women's rights -- Africa, North.; Human rights -- Middle East.; Human rights -- Africa, North.; Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Middle East.; Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Africa, North.; Women -- Crimes against -- Middle East.; Women -- Crimes against -- Africa, North.
Notes: "February 2005."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 70-75).
Table of contents: value: Ardh / sharaf (honor); value: The legacy of retribution and blood money; value: Murder in modern penal codes; value: Adultery; value: Honor crimes; value: Rape; value: Rape as a political crime; value: Minors; value: Incest and sexual abuse; value: Sexual abuse and harassment; value: Marital rape; value: Homosexuality / transsexuality; value: Illegitimacy; value: Abortion; value: New reproductive technologies; value: Sex work / trafficking in women; value: Female genital mutilation (FGM); value: Battering and domestic violence; value: Conclusion; value: References.