Turkish Women's Groups Protest Proposal
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Hundreds of Turkish women marched on parliament Tuesday to protest a proposal to outlaw adultery, a measure that could undermine the Muslim nation's hopes of being accepted into the prosperous European Union.
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Turkey&#39;s ruling party confirmed on Wednesday it had shelved plans to outlaw adultery that had infuriated women&#39;s rights groups and upset the European Union Ankara aspires to join.
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Environmental campaign groups will today protest at Dublin Castle against their exclusion from social partners discussions.Comment
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Officials are considering an unprecedented proposal to ban women from performing the five Muslim prayers in the immediate vicinity of Islam's most sacred shrine in Mecca. Some say women are already being kept away.
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About 40 members of a Turkish nationalist party occupied one of Istanbul's most famous buildings, the Haghia Sophia, on Wednesday to protest the visit next week of Pope Benedict XVI, police said.
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ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey&#39;s Islamic-rooted ruling party was planning to introduce a proposal to criminalize adultery despite earlier statements that the controversial measure had been shelved, Turkish media reported Thursday.
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Thousands protested a proposal for their provinceâs future, which they say falls short of their desire for independence.
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Board cites traffic, water concerns in deciding against Muslim sect's proposal.
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A bid to radically lift the number of women elected to Turkey's parliament, which has one of the lowest levels of female representation in the world, looks set to fail this Sunday.
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The organizers of Bangladesh's first women's soccer tournament promised to keep playing despite protests by a Muslim group that called the event "indecent and against Islamic norms".
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BRUSSELS, Nov 10 (IPS) - Trade unions are coming together to protest EU  proposals on liberalising services in the internal market.
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Hundreds of women protested on Tuesday against the abduction of a female US aid worker in southern Afghanistan and called on religious leaders to condemn the kidnapping.
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Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has defended plans to outlaw adultery that have outraged women&#39;s groups and raised eyebrows in the European Union, which Turkey aspires to join.
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Women's business groups across the country are decrying a Small Business Administration plan they say threatens to limit their eligibility for government contracts set aside for disadvantaged companies.
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Security forces outnumbered demonstrators at a tiny gathering yesterday afternoon commemorating International Women's Day, which was squelched by an aggressive campaign of detentions in preceding days. The days surrounding Women's Day have traditionally been marked by boisterous street demonstrations by human rights activists demanding an end to Islamic laws condemned as sexist and discriminatory. About 50 demonstrators ...
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Turkey's ruling AK Party and opposition MPs are to present a plan to ease the headscarf ban in universities.
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More than 100,000 Turks took to the streets on Saturday to protest against government plans to lift an Islamic headscarf ban at universities and to defend the country's strong secular tradition.