Traditional Courts Bill out of step
Proposed new traditional laws have been slammed by civic groups as unconstitutional, saying they would impede rural women’s rights in particular.
Proposed new traditional laws have been slammed by civic groups as unconstitutional, saying they would impede rural women’s rights in particular.
Dire consequences unless a people-centred, ecologically sensitive new world order takes shape.
About 125 000 flag-waving Turks, mostly women, denounced the Islamic-rooted government on Saturday over its plans to lift a decades-old ban on Islamic head scarves in universities — a move the foreign minister said would expand Turkish freedoms.