Why?

Why in 2008 are we still seeing practices which restrict and marginalise women?

In Kuala Lumpur the main body of Islamic clerics has issued an edict banning tomboys, ruling that girls who act like boys violate tenets of Islam.

While in the port at Kismayo, thousands of people gathered to witness 50 Somali men stone a women to death. She was buried in the ground up to her neck and her head was battered with rocks. The local Islamist leader claimed she wanted Sharia law and the punishment to apply following her act of adultery.