Tilila, one of the first shelters for women victims of violence, highlights the contradictions persisting in the Moroccan judicial system.

Factories in Egypt are now a battle front for the workers' rights movement that began in December 2006. Most of these events were led or initiated by women. They say “We don't want anything of the sort [feminist demands], we just want to have a good salary and a decent life for both of us, women and men.”

Ten-year conflict between armed Islamists and the civil army continue victimizing Algerian women in extreme ways. The violence of Islamists started in 1992, when Algerians discovered the use of punitive raids against women.

The Feminist Kollektif (Feminist Collective) sat in front of the Galatasaray High School in protest of the murder of Pippa Bacca. “We are sad, we are worried and we are angry,” said the women during the protest.

The Court of Justice of the European Communities (ECJ) has overturned the 2002 decision of the European Council to put the PKK on its terrorism list because of an “error of procedure.”

As the European Parliament rapporteur criticises the lack of reform in the area of freedom of expression, Minister of Justice Sahin has said that 1,189 people were put on trial in the first quarter of 2007.

As it has been decided to remove the buffer zone in Nicosia, a UN team has found no land mines or unexploded ammunition in the area.

As part of his Middle East tour, US Vice President Dick Cheney visited Ankara and Istanbul on Monday.

Various Turkish and international organisations have invited to a conference entitled “Water: Under the Yoke of Capitalism” which takes place this weekend in Istanbul.

Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan has marked the five-year anniversary of the US occupation of Iraq with an article on her campaign website. She calls George Bush a "traitor", and his entourage "vampires" for pushing millions of people into grief.

Women journalists from Turkey, Algeria, Italy, the Lebanon, Spain, Egypt, France, Morocco and Palestine will consider the “Mediterranean Woman in her 20s” in 45 articles.

According to a report by the UNFPA and the Demographics Association, 21.1 percent of men and 27.7 percent of women in Turkey do not know the reproductive organs. 48.7 percent of women think that “early withdrawal” is an effective contraceptive.

2008: 4 years have passed since the reform of the Family Code. Casablanca, a population of 3.5 million (officially), economic capital and melting pot of ancient resident and rural populations who have come to seek employment, of middle classes … Amal, Leyla, Ikram, Ghanya, Amina and Kawtar live their twenties here. Their priority: to work.

Despite the culture of disapproval and the fact that punishment can reach murder or reclusion, love is still worth the risk in Palestine.

They live different realities but almost all, with two exceptions, have place the word “love” on top of their scale of values. Yet they don’t dream of the white dress; “marriage” has a very low rating, whereas having children is everyone’s dream for the future.

Forty years have passed since the sexual revolution started on May ’68. How do young women in their 20’s live love today? Seven among them, students or workers coming from all parts of France, have accepted to speak to us about their love life. Intimate secrets.

If there is one thing that unites young Egyptian women in their twenties today it is that they are generally more articulate in expressing themselves than their mothers' and grandmothers' generation

In Beirut, few young men haven’t emigrated yet, and the competition is getting tough among women. From enticing dresses to plastic surgery, everything goes to attract the attention of their potential targets.

Neither Conchita, nor femme fatale… Only ten years have passed since the era of Franco and women’s conditions in Spain have witnessed quite a change.

US soldiers who have fought in Afghanistan or Iraq will use the Internet to stage a series of activities showing the public the real face of war.